Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info)

From: jw schultz (jw_at_pegasys.ws)
Date: 10/27/03

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    Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:07:04 -0800
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    On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:55:05PM +0100, Stef van der Made wrote:
    >
    > On my AMD athlon system with 512MB memory I sometimes get a lot of disk
    > activity the activity normaly lasts for about 10 seconds and after that
    > the disk stays relativily quiet as expected with the load on the system.
    > When I look into top I don't see any programs that could explain the
    > disk activity. The system is in most cases not using any swap.

    In the vein of "make sure its plugged in", make sure it
    isn't cron.
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