Hi,
I get these occasional very long bursts of disk activity, usually but
not always within an hour or so of booting up, during which the HD LED is
on continuously and the machine is very slow to respond. There were
cron jobs running global finds, which I knocked out; this helped, but
didn't stop it entirely. To make it more mysterious, ps ax during such
a burst shows nothing untoward:
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:09 init
2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
3 ? SWN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 ? SW 0:01 [kswapd]
5 ? SW 0:00 [bdflush]
6 ? DW 0:00 [kupdated]
7 ? SW 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
79 ? SW< 0:00 [loop0]
80 ? SW< 0:00 [loop1]
81 ? SW< 0:00 [loop2]
82 ? SW< 0:00 [loop3]
83 ? SW< 0:00 [loop4]
84 ? SW< 0:00 [loop5]
85 ? SW< 0:00 [loop6]
112 ? S 0:00 /sbin/portmap
164 ? S 0:00 /sbin/syslogd
167 ? S 0:00 /sbin/klogd
172 ? S 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
182 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
193 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
195 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
201 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
204 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
215 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
216 tty2 S 0:00 -bash
217 tty3 S 0:00 -bash
218 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
219 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
220 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
454 tty3 S 0:00 mutt
619 tty2 R 0:00 ps ax
top shows CPU usage of a few percent.
Any ideas what's causing this?
Pigeon
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