On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:18 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
>
> When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there
> still be I/O activity on the root disks?
Yes.
> If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ?
Writing to log, cron jobs
Very good points.
Trying to understand Linux from a theoretical point of view.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit :
> > On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote:
> > > Ok, so in theory assuming no p
Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit :
> On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote:
> > Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there
> > should be no HD activity.
>
> Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally
> move things to swap space.
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On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote:
> Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there
> should be no HD activity.
Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally
move things to swap space. Of course, you can disable
Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there should be
no HD activity.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
> >
> > When the
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
>
> When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still
> be I/O activity on the root disks?
>
> If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ?
Depends entirel
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:48:04 -0700, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:57:02PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote:
> > And how would somebody know that it is a bug in initscripts? I would
> > check the mount bugs (actually I had it and I didn't but I was lazy
> > that day) and
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:13:02PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 2. August 2004 at 10:05PM -0700,
> > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:57:02PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote:
>> And how would somebody know that it is a bug in initscripts? I would
>> check the mount bugs (actually I had it and I didn't but I was lazy
>> that day) and not find the bug and think it's som
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2. August 2004 at 10:05PM -0700,
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be
>> > displayed as unknown?
>>
>> Filesystem corruption most likely.
>
> What
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:57:02PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote:
> And how would somebody know that it is a bug in initscripts? I would
> check the mount bugs (actually I had it and I didn't but I was lazy
> that day) and not find the bug and think it's something local.
I originally googled for it whe
On 2. August 2004 at 10:05PM -0700,
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be
> > displayed as unknown?
>
> Filesystem corruption most likely.
What sort of filesystem corruption are we looking a
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:42:26 -0700, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:12:45AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be displayed as
> > unknown and whether this is scheduled to be fixed at some point in the
> > future?
>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:12:45AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be displayed as
> unknown and whether this is scheduled to be fixed at some point in the
> future?
Sure. Bug #255849 on initscripts. Can't anyone check the BTS anymore?
The original
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:05:13 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be displayed as
>> unknown?
>
> Filesystem corruption most likely.
No, not unless a very large fraction of this mailing li
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be displayed as
> unknown?
Filesystem corruption most likely.
> whether this is scheduled to be fixed at some point in the
> future?
I can't answer that. Grab your PDA and find out when you've made ti
on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 03:34:57PM -0500, Anderson, TimTL33E ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Damien [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:12 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >
tle it off
without thinking.
tim
> -Original Message-
> From: Damien [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:12 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: root file system
>
> > As you will see from another post, /var is under roo
I heard that Art Edwards wrote this on 30/10/00:
> BTW, what is the file kcore? It seems to be very big.
>
If you're talking about /proc/kcore, don't worry. That file isn't taking
your HD space. The /proc directory is not a real filesystem (and it doesn't
take space in your disk).
/proc acts lik
> As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
> very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most
> directories. Can you give me an idea of where, outside of mail, things
> in /var get big?
the easier way to narrow down this sort of thing is this:
cd
Not to offent anyone, but does this thread have anything with debian
development? I do not think so, so please exclude debian-devel from the
to: or cc: line, thanx. :)
// Ola
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:16:17PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
> Thanks to all for putting me in the right direction. It turns out that I
> hvae a spare 2G that I was going to use for NT but never quite got
> around to using. I would like to use it for a var file system (a bit
> large but better than
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Art Edwards wrote:
> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
> hard time trying to find out what is growing. Has anybody had the same
> thing happen? I'm running potato (kernel 2.2.17) on both an athalon and
> a pentium III machine (both are exhi
Thanks to all for putting me in the right direction. It turns out that I
hvae a spare 2G that I was going to use for NT but never quite got
around to using. I would like to use it for a var file system (a bit
large but better than what I have now.)
I know I can simply change the fstab file, but how
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
>very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most
>directories. Can you give me an idea of where, outside of mail, things
>in /var get big?
Try /var/lib/dpkg and /var/c
Quoting Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
>
> >And what do you have on you root-partition? /var peharps?
>
>
> As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
> very hard there and I can't find a
* Art Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001030 16:39]:
> As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
> very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most
> directories. Can you give me an idea of where, outside of mail, things
> in /var get big?
man du is you
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Art Edwards wrote:
> >> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
> >And what do you have on you root-partition? /var peharps?
>
> As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
> very hard there and I can't find a culpri
>> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
>And what do you have on you root-partition? /var peharps?
As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most
directories. Can you giv
31.10.2000 pisze Art Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
> hard time trying to find out what is growing. Has anybody had the same
> thing happen? I'm running potato (kernel 2.2.17) on both an athalon and
> a pentium III machine (bot
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
And what do you have on you root-partition? /var peharps?
> BTW, what is the file kcore? It seems to be very big.
Do you mean /proc/kcore? it is a projection of you memory into the
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