Re: Random hard disk activity.
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:01:23AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> I have an old box which acts as radio/cd-player/mp3-player. When I play
> mp3s, every few minutes (2-6 min, no particular time) there is hard disk
> activity which brings the mp3 player to a halt for a few seconds after
> which it continues (too few CPU cycles to decode the mp3 maybe?). I haven't
> been able to find out what process causes this.
>
> And to be honest, this also happens when I run other programs, only the
> effect is not so profound, eg. I hear the HD activity, but the CD-player
> simply plays on.
>
> Anybody some pointers to where I might look or what to tweak. Thanks --hans
Have you use the 'top' program to find which process consume
most of the resource? 'top' can show a list of the processes
sorted by resource consumption(CPU, MEM etc.).
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