Disk thrashing, Please HELP!

[Jason Dixon]

On May 16, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Rosina Bignall wrote:

>
> 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?

Without more information on what services you're running, it's going to 
be tough.  Use "ps afx" while the python process(es) is running to see 
what's actually calling python.

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
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