Re: root file system question
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On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote:
> Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there
> should be no HD activity.
Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally
move things to swap space. Of course, you can disable swap...
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, David <wizzardx@gmail.com
> <mailto:wizzardx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com
> <mailto: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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