Disk thrashing, Please HELP!

[Rosina Bignall]

Okay, I've done some more messing around and here's an update of 
what happened:  I stopped some of the services, just to see what 
would happen, and wa-la, when I stopped the syslogd, the 
thrashing stopped.  Restarting syslogd did not cause the 
thrashing to resume.  When I stopped syslogd, it allowed 
python2.2 to jump up and start taking all the CPU time, so I 
killed that process and now no more thrashing and no other 
problems.

After a while, something started python2.2 again, while it didn't 
start the disk thrashing again, it did eat up CPU time.  I again 
killed it and since nothing else stopped running or had any other 
problems, I'm not sure what's starting python or causing it to 
act like that. I expect to see this again after a reboot (since 
rebooting did not stop the problem before), so I still need to 
figure out how this is happening and how I can resolve it.  Any 
suggestions?

Thanks,
Rosina


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Rosina Bignall
rbignall at earthlink.net