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From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:07:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031027000704.GB5198@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9BC429.6060608@planet.nl>

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:55:05PM +0100, Stef van der Made wrote:
> 
> On my AMD athlon system with 512MB memory I sometimes get a lot of disk 
> activity the activity normaly lasts for about 10 seconds and after that 
> the disk stays relativily quiet as expected with the load on the system. 
> When I look into top I don't see any programs that could explain the 
> disk activity. The system is in most cases not using any swap.

In the vein of "make sure its plugged in", make sure it
isn't cron.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-27  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-26 12:55 Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info) Stef van der Made
2003-10-26 16:13 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-10-27  0:07 ` jw schultz [this message]
2003-10-27 12:12 ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-27 19:25   ` Stef van der Made
2003-10-28 12:15     ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-28 14:22       ` Mike Dresser
2003-10-31 21:23   ` Stef van der Made

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