Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 09:35, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > 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
>
> emacs, eh? Well, that explains it... You must not have enough GB of
> memory to keep from swapping parts of emacs in and out of swap space all
> the time. Switch to an editor that isn't so huge (like vim :o). (OK,
> if it wasn't obvious, I'm kidding. I don't want to incur the wrath of
> the church of emacs :o)
>
I don't go to church meetings -- it's just that I learned emacs key
bindings bakc hwne I was a wee student, & find vi confusing....
> Seriously though, if you are limited on memory, and you're not running
> X, I'd suggest that you not run xfs and Xprt either.
done, thx
>
> > 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.
>
> Another thought: Are you running a journaling file system (i.e. ext3,
> reiserfs, etc...)? If so, then kjournald will be running and will
> periodically write to the disk to keep its journal up to date.
>
I'd thought of that and checked -- it's ext2, at least according to
fstab.
> Cheers!
thx,
m
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