Follow-up Strange HD Behavior

I did the top thing in the monitor and this is what I got. In order to
capture the data, I had to use ksnapshot, so this gives a bias to the
results.

Cpus: 52.8%us, 10.0%sy, 0.0% bum 0.0%udm 35.9%wa, 1.3%hi, 0.0%sum 0.0%st

%CPU was: 28.2 ksnapshot, 13.9% firefox-bin, 5.2% Xorg, 4.3% metacity,
3.6% gnome-panel and the rest as noise.

How do I capture the data without invoking a screen capture program? It
does skew the results.

At any rate, the 35.9%wa seems to be the one I don't understand. It has
been in the mid 90s% when just after boot. This time it took a few
minutes for the HD trashing to start.

Al

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:54:16 +0000, Al wrote:
[color=blue]
> I did the top thing in the monitor and this is what I got. In order to
> capture the data, I had to use ksnapshot, so this gives a bias to the
> results.
>
> Cpus: 52.8%us, 10.0%sy, 0.0% bum 0.0%udm 35.9%wa, 1.3%hi, 0.0%sum 0.0%st
>
> %CPU was: 28.2 ksnapshot, 13.9% firefox-bin, 5.2% Xorg, 4.3% metacity,
> 3.6% gnome-panel and the rest as noise.
>
> How do I capture the data without invoking a screen capture program? It
> does skew the results.
>
> At any rate, the 35.9%wa seems to be the one I don't understand. It has
> been in the mid 90s% when just after boot. This time it took a few
> minutes for the HD trashing to start.
>
> Al[/color]

Is rdiff-backup or some other backup running in the background?


$ ps aux |grep rdiff-backup

killall rdiff-backup