On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:41:10AM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the situation: the hard drive LED is flashing every 2 seconds, > I don't which process is causing it, or if it's a kernel thread doing > swapping or something. So how can I find out? "top" doesn't seem to > answer that question. (Note that a disk intensive program is not > neccesarrily CPU intensive). If you're running a 2.4 kernel watch top and see if `kswapd' is running: it's the kernel swapping daemon. Running in the sense that it's state is `run', of course, not just listed in the process table. -rob
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