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

[jw schultz]

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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