From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263060AbTJYV5O (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:57:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263110AbTJYV5N (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:57:13 -0400 Received: from ip3e83a512.speed.planet.nl ([62.131.165.18]:23609 "EHLO made0120.speed.planet.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263060AbTJYV5L (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:57:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3F9AF1AB.3000304@planet.nl> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:56:59 +0200 From: Stef van der Made User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. The system configuration is as following. AMS athlon 1400 512MB main mem 18GB scsi disk 10K 29160 adaptec scsi controller using a via kt2666 chipset I'm not sure if I should log a bug and what the problem area could be. Thanks in advance for helping out, Stef