On Tuesday 07 March 2006 17:19, 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. > > Where else might I get a clue as to what's happening? There's certainly > nothing like this on any of the other three boxes that have FC4 installed. > One of life's little mysteries :-) I never did find out why it was happening, but after I plugged in the film scanner and installed vuescan I decided that I should try a reboot. I lost my display settings and keyboard settings! But after putting them right I realised that I was no longer getting all that activity. Strange! Anne
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