On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:13:35PM +0000, Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: > Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > > Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > > > > > > It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still > > > > active. You can use the "-m" option to change it's frequency. > > > > > > But in my /etc/init.d/syslogd file i can't find the option -m !! > > > > Exactly; twenty minutes is the default interval - in case you do > > not specify something else, which is what -m is for. > > > > > And why is my maschine every 20 minutes so slow ???? > > > > How slow? And for how long? Maybe you have some other program > > Very slow. A new xterm window need about 5 seconds to appear ! > > > that is being run automatically every twenty minutes. Look at > > your cron-files. > > I've allready examined my cronfile, but did`t find anythink. > I don`t believe that it is a cronjob because it happens on a fresh > installed system. > I installed xload to monitor this think and every 20 minutes it looks > terible and > my harddisk starts to work.
Does "ps axf" show anything (a "find" for instance?). How about "free"? The --MARK-- means that the log has been flushed to disk, but unless you are very tight on memory this should hurt (much). We have a bad router at work and I need to comment out a kernel printk otherwise the logging every few seconds hurts performance (5->15% on a P166 according to top and it _is_ noticeable). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
