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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:53:02 -0500
From: "Carey M. Drake" <carey.drake@oracle.com>
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To: Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>
CC: "J.D. Hollis" <jdhollis@cc.gatech.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: major problem with linux-2.4.0test10
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Why not just remove the sa lines from /etc/crontab?

C.

Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, J.D. Hollis wrote:
> 
> > I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason,
> > shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no
> > apparent reason, and suddenly about 150MB of my 256MB RAM is filled up with
> > something gtop labels 'Other.'  whatever's filling my memory isn't attached
> > to any process.   the one time I managed to get gtop open while the hard
> > drive was seeking, I noticed that kflushd was using about 98% of my
> > processor (an Athlon 900MHz).  I'm running Redhat 7.0 (although I have no
> > idea whether that makes a difference).
> 
> It's probably a program called 'sa' that anacron starts up right after boot
> (on RH 7.0). It's a system accounting program that starts up and scans the
> entire drive looking for stuff, which fills up cache in RAM.
> 
> I generally disable all anacron stuff and remove /etc/cron.??* and the
> daily/weekly/monthly entries in /etc/crontab, then I run
> '/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart'. That oughta fix it, but you might want to
> look into the cron scripts individually and selectively remove the lines you
> don't want. :-)
> 
> --
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