Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?
Incoming from Matt Price:
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> I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power
> efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't
> use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd.
> Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the output of
> ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning back up
> spontaneously. Who's accessing my hard drive?? I don't have the
> slightest idea how to find out, or (even better) figure out how to
> stop it from happening.
I may not have your solution, but a couple of points:
- kswapd, bdflush, klogd _may_ be your problem.
- do you really want portmap, inetd, xfs, and sshd running on a laptop?!?
I can see inetd (my exim seems to need it), but if you never ssh
_into_ that box, you don't need sshd. You don't need portmap except
if you're connecting to NFS, and xfs seems a waste of resources on a
small box except if you're running apps that demand its abilities.
fwiw.
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