[wplug] Weird HDD Activity.. (RH9)

[techmike]

Ah ha..  found it..

/etc/cron.daily
[root at ts1 cron.daily]# cat rpm
#!/bin/sh
rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' 2>&1 \
        | sort > /var/log/rpmpkgs


I ran it manually and sure enough, same activity, lasted the same ammount 
of time..

Wonder if that is really necessary to run daily..  hrmm..

Thanks for the lsof bit, I knew openoffice was a resource hog, but that 
blew my mind..

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
Cc: mikeslists at access995.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:05:15 -0400
Subject: Re: [wplug] Weird HDD Activity..  (RH9)

> "techmike" <mikeslists at access995.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've been having a lot of hard drive activity at excatally 8:45 every
> > morning..  Not sure if this is recent or I just never noticed it
> before..
> > 
> > Checked cron and there is nothing I could find set to run at that
> time, 
> > nothing I could see in any of the logs either..
> > 
> > Running RH9 with the KDE desktop.
> 
> If you're running the standard RedHat setup, then there's a part of
> cron that
> schedules missed jobs to run at earliest convenience (anacron sticks in
> my
> head, but I'm not sure that's right)
> 
> Basically, if your computer is off when the cron job is supposed to
> run, it will
> run it first chance it gets when the machine is powered back up.  I
> don't know
> what it will do if the machine is in powersave (i.e. will it wake the
> system
> up to run the job, or just reschedule it for later).
> 
> Is 8:45 about when you start working on the machine in the morning?
> 
> If this doesn't turn out to be the issue, you could try running lsof
> during the
> activity to try to track down what's causing it.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
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