From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 11:18:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns-exch05.jccc.net (ns-exch05.jccc.net [198.248.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044EE37B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ns-exch05 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:14:25 -0500 Message-ID: From: Noah Dunker To: 'Marty Landman' , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: intermittent HD activity on idle box Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:14:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Check the system time and compare it to /etc/crontab and the crontabs of any users on the system. My firewall's clock is WAY off but I don't really care because it's just a boat-anchor 386 with a modem and a NIC. :) the default daily/weekly/monthly housecleaning scripts run "early in the morning" but they usually are running when I get home from work, and I notice a lot of disk activity. Your best bet is to log in and use tools like top, fstat, lsof (if you've compiled it), or xosview (if you've compiled it and you're running X) to get a feel for what your system is up to. Noah Dunker Systems Analyst/Technician Johnson County Community College -----Original Message----- From: Marty Landman [mailto:marty@face2interface.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:57 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: intermittent HD activity on idle box I've got FreeBSD version 4.2 installed and sitting idle most of the time. Occasionally I notice the hard drive working for several seconds to a few minutes and looking at the console don't notice anything in particular happening. I realize there are always processes running in the background so I wonder what is going on and if there's a way I can monitor this sort of activity? Also, does the hard drive get defragmented on the fly? Could that be what's happening at times? Thanks, Marty Face 2 Interface Web Solutions Website Creation Made SIMPL(tm) http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message