disk activities on a notebook..

["Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <gonzo@ing.puc.cl>]

On Aug  8, 1997, at 07:05, David Puryear wrote:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four
 > seconds? I'm using debian 1.3.1 with 2.0.29 on a laptop, so I
 > trying to make the battery last as long as possible. But with
 > constant accessing of the disk when I'm just typing is draining the
 > battery way too fast.:( Hope someone has idea as to how to change
 > this behavior.
 > 
 > Any hint as to how to find out would be appreciated, thanks,
 > 
 >         David

Let's see, how much physical memory do you have? If it is less than
16 MB, then X is going to swap a lot. That could explain it.

-- 
Gonzalo A. Diethelm G.
gonzo@ing.puc.cl


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