On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
