[lug] RedHat 7.1 Water Torture and SWAP size

[D. Stimits]

If this is significant cpu useage, simply run "top"...as soon as the
activity starts, look for the app that just started eating cpu (it might
not be cpu intensive, but chances are it is). Someone else mentioned it
is probably a cron job (or anacron). The cron job I've seen the most
complaints about is "updatedb", since it eats up disk access.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

Nate W wrote:
> 
> My hard drive runs something about every 15 seconds ALL the time and it's
> driving me completely nuts.  I recently upgraded from 7.0 on my Dell Inspiron
> 7500 - the system didn't have this problem previously.
> 
> I'd appreciate all ideas on what is causing it, if it's Really Important or not
> and how to stop/reschedule whatever it is.
> 
> Also, I made my SWAP file too big and need some of the space back - how to I go
> about resizing it without reinstalling?
> 
> Thanx!
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