Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:58:36 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Marty Landman <marty@face2interface.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intermittent HD activity on idle box Message-ID: <15318.8268.346817.370127@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <43194651@toto.iv>
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Marty Landman <marty@face2interface.com> types: > 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? Noah already pointed you at cron; that's one possibility. The other is the disk syncer. See the syncer(4) man page for more information. > Also, does the hard drive get defragmented on the fly? Could that be what's > happening at times? Nope. FBSD's layout algorithms avoid fragmentation. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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