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Re: root file system question



On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
>
> When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still
> be I/O activity on the root disks?
>
> If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ?

Depends entirely on what services you have running, crontab jobs, etc.

If you have 0 services installed then there should be no harddrive
activity after booting.

You can check this with vmstat


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