[ale] Occasional Extensive Disk I/O Question

[Chris Fowler]

How much memory do you have and what are you running?  I see this alot
if I have KDE+setiathome running on a box and do not use it for a couple
days.  If I come back and move the mouse to turn off the KDE
screensaver, I get extensive i/o for about 30 seconds.


On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:05, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> >How can I find out what is going on?  Where do I look to so what process is writing/reading to the disk?
> >
> >Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> 
> A couple of questions. What filesystem are you running?
> Also, when the disk light is on, can you hear anything out
> of the disk? Also, try running 'vmstat' to see what's going
> on. Try something like 'vmstat 2 10'. Try it a couple of
> times. What happens if you do a 'sync' when this is going
> on?
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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