Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 7:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Disk Activity
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begin Michael Hipp's quote:
| Something is continually strobing my hard disk about 1/second all
| the time I'm logged into KDE. Seems excessive.
|
| Is this normal? How could I track down which process is doing it?
first, what hardware are you running? how do you have swap configured?
what
New mobo (P4 1.7 GHz, 256M, 845 Intel chipset w/DDR memory, 2 IDE hds on
chan #0). Ext2 filesystem, tho I have an Elx partition mounted that is
ReiserFS and also a vfat Win partition. Not sure what you're asking
specifically about swap but 'free' says:
total used free
begin Michael Hipp's quote:
| New mobo (P4 1.7 GHz, 256M, 845 Intel chipset w/DDR memory, 2 IDE
| hds on chan #0). Ext2 filesystem, tho I have an Elx partition
| mounted that is ReiserFS and also a vfat Win partition. Not sure
| what you're asking specifically about swap but 'free' says:
|
I unmounted the ReiserFS and vfat partitions. Disk activity continues.
Setting 'top' to 0.1 second updates seems to show kdeinit, X, init,
keventd, and maybe hotpluguid as the most active. But it's really hard to
tell. Interesting that hotpluguid seems to jump from way down on list to
very
Look at th3e Caldera help info, they have one that talks about some kde
utility on their system tray always checking, polling, cd roms or something
along those lines.
cheers
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Rick Sivernell
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begin Michael Hipp's quote:
| Unplugging the 2nd hard drive would take some work as that's where
| swap and /home are.
um, yeah. have you had both drives in the machine in the same
configuration -- both on the same cable -- when this disk activity
*didn't* take place? reason i ask is that
The drives have been in this config since I built the machine ( 1 month
ago). The activity stops if I log out to the KDE login panel. Or if I get
out of X altogether.
dep pontificated eloquently:
begin Michael Hipp's quote:
| Unplugging the 2nd hard drive would take some work as that's
I would look in /var/log/messages. Maybe you are getting numerous error
messages logged there, causing the disk activity.
Joel
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:46:28PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
Something is continually strobing my hard disk about 1/second all the time
I'm logged into KDE. Seems
Good thought. Looks like I'm getting these at 5 min intervals, but nothing
approaching every sec.
Feb 8 21:20:01 linux crond[1846]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod -a)
Feb 8 21:25:01 linux crond[1848]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod -a)
Feb 8 21:30:01 linux crond[1863]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod -a)
Feb 8
Hmm...
Is this the despised rmmod command? I would remove this from the root
crontab or system crontab. I think a number of distros use it, to get
rid of unused modules, but, it causes more pain than it is worth in
some situations.
Are there any other logs you could peek into? httpd, secure,
Checked cron, it's definitely set to run every 5 minutes forever. Seems at
least backing it down to 1/hour would be sufficient. Anyone know?
Thanks,
Michael
Joel Hammer pontificated eloquently:
Hmm...
Is this the despised rmmod command? I would remove this from the root
crontab or system
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