Disk & cpu activity at regular intervals

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:11, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:19 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On a new install of FC4 I'm seeing disk activity and cpu usage at
> > intervals rather less than 1 second, by my judgement.  Mostly the cpu
> > usage is 1-2%, but every 6th peak, roughly about 5 seconds apart, it is
> > 12-15%.  hda activity in gkrellm shows spikes at the same time interval
> > as the cpu spikes, and again, there is a big one that coincides with the
> > cpu usage spike.  Top doesn't show anything unusual.
>
> I used to get that with CUPS.  If you're lucky, you can trawl through
> your various log files and find something with very frequent entries.
>
The problem hasn't recurred, Tim, so I'll leave it along until/if it does.

Anne
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