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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:16:16 -0800
From:      Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <1133223376.2269.51.camel@yak.mseubanks.net>
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On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 03:10 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote:
> > 
> > > I made the sysctl modification.  Still no luck though.  The only process
> > > that had any activity using the top with the -S option, or after sorting
> > > by total, was the swapper/syncer.  Even then, it was hardly active.  The
> > > network traffic persists.
> > 
> > Weird, I don't know what that means.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> I was thinking about graphing the network activity on the client and
> server in the background using the bpf while running different processes
> in the foreground to see what process is actually creating the traffic.
> I think an actual graph would give me a better idea of what is going on.
> Right now, I would like to assume it is a part of Gnome as was suggested
> before, although, I'd rather be sure.
> 
> 

Solved.

There was a panel applet that was monitoring disk activity.  I did a
diff comparison on my previous vs. new config files (in ~/.gconf).
After a bit of sorting, there were extra applet paths even though the
visual config was nearly identical.  Specifically, there was a config
for a multiload applet and different viewiable loads enabled.  There was
also a multiload process running, so I killed it and network activity
dropped immediately.  I tried removing everything on the panel,
although, nothing appears to kill that specific process/applet.  This
looks like a different problem entirely and must have been automatically
configured with the initial loading of Gnome when I did the refresh.

Thanks for the responses.

-- 
Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net>



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