NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE
Mike Eubanks
mse_software at charter.net
Tue Nov 29 00:16:46 GMT 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 03:10 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote:
> >
> > > I made the sysctl modification. Still no luck though. The only process
> > > that had any activity using the top with the -S option, or after sorting
> > > by total, was the swapper/syncer. Even then, it was hardly active. The
> > > network traffic persists.
> >
> > Weird, I don't know what that means.
> >
> > Kris
>
> I was thinking about graphing the network activity on the client and
> server in the background using the bpf while running different processes
> in the foreground to see what process is actually creating the traffic.
> I think an actual graph would give me a better idea of what is going on.
> Right now, I would like to assume it is a part of Gnome as was suggested
> before, although, I'd rather be sure.
>
>
Solved.
There was a panel applet that was monitoring disk activity. I did a
diff comparison on my previous vs. new config files (in ~/.gconf).
After a bit of sorting, there were extra applet paths even though the
visual config was nearly identical. Specifically, there was a config
for a multiload applet and different viewiable loads enabled. There was
also a multiload process running, so I killed it and network activity
dropped immediately. I tried removing everything on the panel,
although, nothing appears to kill that specific process/applet. This
looks like a different problem entirely and must have been automatically
configured with the initial loading of Gnome when I did the refresh.
Thanks for the responses.
--
Mike Eubanks <mse_software at charter.net>
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