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From: "Marcel Dijk" <nascar24@home.nl>
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Subject: Re: Extreme disk activity (extra info)
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:12:09 +0200
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How can I see wich process causes so many disk activity. (NON-STOP disk
activity)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rowlands" <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To: "Marcel Dijk" <nascar24@home.nl>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Extreme disk activity (extra info)


> 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).
>
>
>


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