On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 07:54, Ben Donohue wrote: > I currently have no clue of where to start looking for what is causing > this. It is not access from the internet or myself or others. Any > pointers as to where to start (to help my Linux learning) would be > greatly appreciated!
First place I would be looking is the logs. Try keeping a window open running "tail -f /var/log/messages" as root. See if something is happening when you get these hard disk spasms. Could be a hard disk or controller problem I guess. A lot of those type of errors will appear in the log. What services do you have running on the box? If you stop as much stuff as possible when this happens, are you able to stop the thrashing? HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
