From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 3:55:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2685337B405 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 03:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 6475 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2001 12:55:40 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO pcmarpxy.tninet.se) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 11 Aug 2001 12:55:40 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: "Marcel Dijk" , Subject: Re: Extreme disk activity (extra info) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:55:39 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <02b001c12248$a6e1f360$0200a8c0@testuser> In-Reply-To: <02b001c12248$a6e1f360$0200a8c0@testuser> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081112553907.51958@pcmarpxy.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 11 August 2001 11:33, Marcel Dijk wrote: > Hello, > > My FreeBSD 4.2 is now running non-stop for about 27 days now. But I have a > problem. There seems to be constant disk activity. And I can't find out > what it is. How can I find out what causes this behavior and what can I do > about it? > > Thanks, > > Marcel > > ps. Here is the output of uptime: > > 11:30AM up 27 days, 20:36, 2 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.23, 0.19 ps -ax will show you all the processes running, top will show an updating list of the top 10 processes There are also various jobs that run automatically (see man periodic). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message