Hello Guys and Gals
I keep experiencing a strange run away process. seems it always starts
early in the evenings, But I cant find it. I have checked my cron
scheduled tasks and have even disabled it.
What happens is while listening to music from hard-disk or watching a
movie from dvd or hard disk, the sound or movie will start to hack as a
result of a lot of hard drive activity.
So I have tried to run top and see what is using all the cpu time, but
everything seems to be normal, nothing is reporting to be excessively
high, I have even closed xine, gxine and xmms.
Check it out!
This is when the system is fine:
Mem: 773612k av, 758832k used, 14780k free, 0k shrd, 146900k
buff
370312k active, 205632k inactive
Swap: 522104k av, 3964k used, 518140k free 286108k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU
COMMAND
4301 root 15 0 113M 32M 8548 S 18.6 4.3 104:58 0 X
16120 chadley 15 0 12456 12M 8484 S 7.6 1.6 0:04 0
gnome-terminal
4420 chadley 15 0 7008 7008 5864 S 0.1 0.9 0:09 0
metacity
1 root 16 0 420 420 360 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ksoftirqd/0
6 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kswapd
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kupdated
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mdrecoveryd
12 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
81 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
2140 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
2240 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
2351 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
3852 root 16 0 568 568 488 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
syslogd
3856 root 15 0 372 372 312 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd
3877 rpc 16 0 572 572 496 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
portmap
3897 rpcuser 19 0 708 708 632 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
rpc.statd
3944 root 15 0 2352 2348 1532 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0
mount.smbfs
3949 root 15 0 2360 2356 1540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0
mount.smbfs
3963 root 16 0 432 432 376 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 apmd
4003 root 15 0 652 652 468 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 smartd
4058 root 19 0 1404 1404 1232 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 sshd
4074 root 16 0 892 892 776 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 xinetd
4095 root 16 0 2492 2308 1844 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0
sendmail
4104 smmsp 16 0 2260 1984 1756 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0
sendmail
4126 root 16 0 5700 5584 5472 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 0 httpd
4136 root 16 0 596 596 528 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 crond
4169 xfs 16 0 11232 10M 1176 S 0.0 1.4 0:15 0 xfs
4179 root 16 0 2480 2024 1664 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 smbd
4183 root 16 0 2232 1788 1552 S 0.0 0.2 0:19 0 nmbd
4202 daemon 16 0 568 560 508 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 atd
4212 dbus 17 0 856 840 760 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0
dbus-daemon-1
4253 root 18 0 340 340 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4254 root 18 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4255 root 18 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4256 root 19 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4257 root 20 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4258 root 20 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4259 root 16 0 1948 1948 1792 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0
gdm-binary
4310 chadley 15 0 8828 8828 6664 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 0
gnome-session
4363 chadley 16 0 624 564 500 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ssh-agent
4367 chadley 16 0 18272 17M 2020 S 0.0 2.3 0:02 0
gconfd-2
4372 chadley 15 0 1680 1680 364 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 esd
4381 chadley 16 0 2528 2528 1988 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0
bonobo-activati
4383 chadley 15 0 7168 7168 5584 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 0
gnome-settings-
Ok
Now this is when the hard drive light is going nuts and the system is
unresponsive and everything is extremely slow.
12:24:11 up 2 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.28, 0.13
83 processes: 82 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 773612k av, 759016k used, 14596k free, 0k shrd, 146932k
buff
370480k active, 205624k inactive
Swap: 522104k av, 3964k used, 518140k free 286124k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU
COMMAND
4301 root 15 0 113M 32M 8548 S 11.8 4.3 105:08 0 X
16120 chadley 15 0 12720 12M 8488 S 6.8 1.6 0:05 0
gnome-terminal
4428 chadley 16 0 5608 5608 4880 S 0.5 0.7 1:49 0
magicdev
4420 chadley 16 0 7008 7008 5864 S 0.1 0.9 0:09 0
metacity
4424 chadley 15 0 18056 17M 9056 S 0.1 2.3 0:07 0
gnome-panel
15982 chadley 16 0 41632 40M 17156 S 0.1 5.3 0:40 0
evolution
16160 chadley 16 0 1144 1144 880 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 0 top
1 root 16 0 420 420 360 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ksoftirqd/0
6 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kswapd
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kupdated
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mdrecoveryd
12 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
81 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
2140 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
2240 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
2351 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kjournald
3852 root 16 0 568 568 488 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
syslogd
3856 root 15 0 372 372 312 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd
3877 rpc 16 0 572 572 496 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
portmap
3897 rpcuser 19 0 708 708 632 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
rpc.statd
3944 root 15 0 2352 2348 1532 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0
mount.smbfs
3949 root 15 0 2360 2356 1540 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0
mount.smbfs
3963 root 16 0 432 432 376 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 apmd
4003 root 15 0 652 652 468 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 smartd
4058 root 19 0 1404 1404 1232 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 sshd
4074 root 16 0 892 892 776 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 xinetd
4095 root 16 0 2492 2308 1844 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0
sendmail
4104 smmsp 16 0 2260 1984 1756 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0
sendmail
4126 root 16 0 5700 5584 5472 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 0 httpd
4136 root 16 0 596 596 528 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 crond
4169 xfs 16 0 11232 10M 1176 S 0.0 1.4 0:15 0 xfs
4179 root 16 0 2480 2024 1664 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 smbd
4183 root 15 0 2232 1788 1552 S 0.0 0.2 0:19 0 nmbd
4202 daemon 16 0 568 560 508 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 atd
4212 dbus 17 0 856 840 760 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0
dbus-daemon-1
4253 root 18 0 340 340 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4254 root 18 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4255 root 18 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4256 root 19 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4257 root 20 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4258 root 20 0 344 344 288 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mingetty
4259 root 16 0 1948 1948 1792 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0
gdm-binary
4310 chadley 16 0 8828 8828 6664 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 0
gnome-session
4363 chadley 16 0 624 564 500 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ssh-agent
Ok so the question is, is there another way to find out what is causing
the strange behaviour?
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Chadley - Linux Rocks
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