Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?
Incoming from Matt Price:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:27:41AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Matt Price:
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > I may not have your solution, but a couple of points:
> >
> > - kswapd, bdflush, klogd _may_ be your problem.
>
> if so, what should I do? They have such low process numbers I've
> always thought they were all absolutely essential. Can I mess with
> them?
_I_ would not futz with those, but there may be other ways to do this
with tunefs (or its ilk; chattr?).
> I don't really know what xfs is for -- occasionally I do work in a gui
> on Openoffice -- since fonts were so hard to set up I'm loathe to mess
> with them, but if in fact xfs is always unnecessary I'll just get rid
> of it. I just checked and the only other package apt wants to remove
> with it is x-window-system. Do you think that makes it safe to remove
> it?
"xfs" == "X Font Server". It's that line in your
/etc/X11/XF86config-4 that says, "FontPath "unix/:7100"." If, as you
say at the top, you don't use X, then you don't need or want xfs. If,
as you say here, you use OOo, then you need/want X, and may need/want
xfs.
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