And hence AUTHOR wrote: Jim Streit > I have recently noticed a weird thing happening on a server that I have. > A few times a day, the drives on my server start thrashing, like they > are doing a massive read or write. If I look at TOP while this is > happening the only thing that really shows active CPU cycles is > sendmail. It uses about 8% of the processing power of the box. After > about 10 minutes, the thrashing stops and that sendmail thread stops > (user smmsp). During the thrashing there isn't any noticeable > performance slowdown. If it's at the same time every day, perhaps cron jobs? Maybe look at /etc/cron.daily, or try a crontab -l and se what pops out. Tried running netstat, grepping for smmsp, etc? -mj --------------------- Jentges.NET, Inc. Voice: 763.783.3702 Cell: 763.370.1201 --------------------- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list