Why is init process showing a lot of disk I/O activity after the boot sequence has been completed?
Issue
atop output shows the following:
NPROCS SYSCPU USRCPU VSIZE RSIZE RDDSK WRDSK RNET SNET DSK CMD 1/30
1 0.74s 0.02s 10372K 804K 559.6M 6304K ? ? 61% init
2080 97.14s 7m23s 1.6T 14.7G 167.7M 4K ? ? 18% oracle
1 0.47s 0.43s 19936K 5136K 0K 96472K ? ? 10% CVMVolDgAgent
1 0.16s 0.09s 102.5M 28740K 0K 34320K ? ? 4% vxdclid
1 4.63s 0.00s 0K 0K 28782K 0K ? ? 3% vxfs_thread
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
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