>>> On 5/27/2010 at 02:30 AM, "Waite, Dick" wrote:
> Grand Day Mark,
>
> Just to make sure I'm on the right road. Zypper with SLE 11 SP-1
> is a supported sysadmin command line interface, it's manual runs to 27
> plus pages. I have not found any issues, but would like to be sure I'm
> givi
Were it me I'd be thinking idle workload(s) having its/their storage stolen.
That implies some (heavy) overnight other I/O workload - backups, updatedb, ...
Swappiness was invented for just this scenario - what is yours set at ?.
Top and the ilk won't be of much help - a large (swap) I/O spike in