> How I can find what processes access harddisk frequently, periodically > from ~20sec to ~20sec ?
I did go to some extent to spin down my disk, here are som e info; What file system are you using? "Journaling filesystems like ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. This amounts to lousy spindown times when working off such a partition. There's no workaround for this." http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ Also google "noatime". Also check out the "-" character in syslog conf. Finally - i bought a SSD to get complete silence... :) /david. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

