Re: [SLUG] disk throughput vs cron

From: Mike Branda (mike@wackyworld.tv)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 17:58:09 EST


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:54 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Rich Morgan wrote:
>
> >> I run a disk-to-disk copy every morning at 5am, invoked by cron. Every
> >> now and then, I see a drop in throughput (today it was from ~45 MB/s to
> >> ~34 MB/s, from 5:01:30 to 5:08:30). How can I find out what's running at
> >> this time and slowing down the copy? I already found the stuff in
> >> /etc/crontab, and I moved that from 6:xx to 7:xx. I checked crontabs for
> >> root and eben (news has none), nothing about that time.
> >

check out

/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.hourly

etc...

Mike Branda Jr.

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