Re: which process is writing to disk?

[Lubos Vrbka <lists@vrbka.net>]

hi,

> Do you run a journalling filesystem like ext3?  It could be the Journal 
> Daemon.
yes, i run on ext3. however, why should it happen only sometimes 
(usually after several hours runtime)? and just click ... 5 seconds 
nothing ... click ... 5 seconds nothing ...

> It may be the drive itself doing a recalibration. Modern drives, when
> idle, do a recalibration of the head position every few minutes.
this is 60gb sata. every few minutes would be fine, however every few 
seconds...

thanks,

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