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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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Subject: Re: Inexplicable disk activity trying to load modules on devfs
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I just booted into 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 for the first time, and noticed
> something very odd: my disk activity light was flashing at about
> half-second intervals, very regularly, and I could hear the disk

I have a similar problem with the popular 'dig' utility. Running 'dig 2>
/dev/null > /dev/null' suffices to cause disk activity, even when run many
times in succession.

As far as stracing can tell (dig is multithreaded), there is no reason for
this.

Regards,

bert

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