Re: disk activities on a notebook..

[David Puryear <dayear@codenet.net>]

On 11-Aug-97 Lukas Eppler wrote:
     On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:
     
     > 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?
     > 
     > 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.
     > 
     I have 24 Megs and almost the same situation. Even shutting down X and
     killing cron doesn't help... Is there a good way to find out what is
     accessing the disk? lsof is too much and doesn't say when files are
     accessed, only which files... There are situations, where my hd spins
     down, but it managed only to stay calm for at maximum 2 seconds.  ?? 

I finally got X to not access disk so much, but I don't know if this is right
thing to do. Anyhow, removing cron and at packages did it for me. Now I am
happy.<g>

        Hth,
        David
p.s. If there is reason why I shouldn't remove these packages then please do
explain, thanks.
     
     Thanks, 
     
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     Lukas Eppler (godot)
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