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Re: root file system question



On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:18 -0400, Mag Gam 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? 

Yes.

> If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ?

Writing to log, cron jobs running, automated notification going to your
mail, system swappung unused stuff out now so it doesn't have to when
the system is heavily loaded, etc.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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