On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilles Mocellin <
gilles.mocellin@free.fr> wrote:
Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit :
> 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...
[...]
If you use ext3 filesystems, there's the journal flush happening every 5
minutes.