Disk & cpu activity at regular intervals

[Tim]

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.

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