fsck_ufs running too often

[RW]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:56:39 -0700 (PDT)
Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow
> more than once a day, so every time I run "top" to see what's
> processes are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the
> hard drive working like mad.
> 
> I've checked my crontab and there's nothing related to fsck_ufs,
> where can I start searching for the cause of the problem?, I thought
> this process should run only at boot or shutdown, but this time it is
> running -apparently- without a cause.


If you have background fsck enabled it runs just after the boot has
completed. Have you checked the uptime? It may be that your
server is spontaneously rebooting.