Re: Who is eating my IDE subsystem bandwidth?
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:38, Adam Galant wrote:
> > > logs don't show any particular activity, HDD is heavily loaded (led
> > > blinking, system hardly usable). I need to find out _which_ of the
> > > processes use HDD most heavily. How to do that?
> > >
>
> > Check swap (-> swapoff).
>
> Swap usage doesn't change - I don't think there is much activity about
> swap. There's a lot of free memory anyway.
What? If you're in an over-committed state, the kernel will, figur-
atively, burn up the disk paging back and forth.
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