Re: Abnormal disk access

Thank,

Then, it is kswap0 which takes 100%, 0.00% read, 0.00% write
Why that ?
However, firefox may interferes !

> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:12:48 +0100 (BST)
> Patrick Dupre <pd520@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since I installed fedora 11 x86_64, I do periodically (every 15-20 mn)
> > disque access even when the machine is at rest. It does not appear
> > that the machine should swap (the memory is not full at all).
> > The major incovenient is that it also froze the machine without
> > clear increase of the CPU (again the machine is at rest).
> > I do not see what could cause this. I never appear on the
> > same machine before in i686 (I just set a brand new disk).
> >
> > What could cause this problem ?
>
> On my system the two processes that cause similar symptoms are updatedb
> and prelink.  Both are accessing the hard drive as part of their
> regular processing.  It could also be other jobs run by cron running in
> the background.
>
> top will show running jobs, and iotop will show disk access.

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