Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:25:24 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about periodic Message-ID: <82F03D65B6CF592720AD9BEF@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <200609052209.02506.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200609052209.02506.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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--==========4F1FE816BDF74AE94CBB========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On September 5, 2006 10:09:02 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne=20 <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > i have a couple virtual machines running freebsd 6.1-;4 on a ms vs2005 > host, and as of the moment of this writing (and for a while now > actually), they are idling at near 0% utilization. but during the > nights, they really get going to the point that they ramp the cpu fan > speeds to max on the my host box! it takes them hours and hours to > quiet back down, sometimes not until i power the virtual machines off > and back on again. > > im wondering if the cause of these early hours cpu hogging could be > coming from items running from periodic? i think the daily folder is > probably the culprit. is there a good way to see which all scripts are > being run, what their scheduling and priority is? i would like to cull > out as many as i could live without (if possible). > If you're going to do that, do it in the right way. Disable the scripts=20 in /etc/periodic.conf. Read the man pages. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========4F1FE816BDF74AE94CBB==========--
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