Constant disk acitivity - 1 sec interval
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The hard disk is ticking in a 1 sec interval and I AM GOING CRAZY, because I can't find the process responsible. There's no fstat so I can't even figure out what file might be written to. I'm coming from Linux and Windows, and have no idea how to check which files are being accessed in BSD. Or how to even install fstat.
Can anyone help me?
EDIT: After darefully killing several processes, I found out that it is "supervise dnscache"… now if I would only know why it has to access the HDD every damn second.
EDIT: The problem was the following:
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Initially I had installed pfSense on two machines. One was an Athlon desktop machine the other a nettop with a VIA cpu. My goal was to run it on the nettop, but for some other reasons I thought I needed the extra CPU power of the desktop PC.
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The PC version of pfSense had some packages installed, including dns-server that comes with djbdns.
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I finally got the time to migrate the RRD data and settings to the nettop, and somewhere in the initial bootups the dns-server package must have been installed half-way and left in a hidden (from the webGUI) and unusable state.
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After installing and then deinstalling dns-server, the periodical hdd access stopped.
Problem solved. But I will probably replace the HDD anyway, since the other HDD activity is getting on my nerves, too. It's an old drive (6,5GB) and access noise is fairly loud.
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