From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263962AbTJ1MGP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:06:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263965AbTJ1MGP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:06:15 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:21521 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263962AbTJ1MGL (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:06:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9E5DFA.2000008@aitel.hist.no> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:15:54 +0100 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031010 Debian/1.4-6 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stef van der Made CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info) References: <3F9BC429.6060608@planet.nl> <3F9D0BBB.9080600@aitel.hist.no> <3F9D7120.1020207@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <3F9D7120.1020207@planet.nl> 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 Stef van der Made wrote: > > Dear Helge, > > I had the very interesting disk activity again. No serious activity was > happening. I've tried to make some sense of the 2 output commands you've > asked, but they make not much sense. Sorry :-( that I need to ask so > much help on this (bug) report. > > This is the output of vmstat [...] >>From this we see that it isn't swapping (0 in the si and so columns {"swap in" and "swap out"}). The machine occationally reads, and it writes a lot. > and this is top > dnetc is the most active process here. I don't know what it _is_ - could it be doing lots of disk writes? mozilla is running, it may do a lot of disk access under some circumstances, for example when refreshing some webpage with lots of content. Helge Hafting