I have noticed that my hard disk light clicks on every 2/3 second or so.
It seems that a new process that supervises the tcpserver is created, then
destroyed and created again with a new process number.
the "status" file in /var/lock/qmail-qmtpd keeps getting recreated, even if
I delete it.
The "solution", for lack of a better term, maybe "diagnostic cure", is to
delete the stable process that seems to be spawning the flashing process.
ps -axw yielded 2 processes almost identical.
I kill the one that is stable (and earlier)
it'll be something like where 12345 is the PID
12345 supervise /var/lock/qmail-qmtpd tcpserver -u -c40 -u81 -g80 0 qmtp
qmail-qmtpd
I then execute
kill 12345
This stops the flashing (supervision has been terminated)
I am using Mate's memphis RPM.
Has anyone else seen this? Should supervision be so disk intensive to create
and destroy a file 60+ times a minute?
When I kill that process my disk is mostly silent, unless I am doing
something.
Alex Miller
