On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:38, Adam Galant wrote: > > > logs don't show any particular activity, HDD is heavily loaded (led > > > blinking, system hardly usable). I need to find out _which_ of the > > > processes use HDD most heavily. How to do that? > > > > > > Check swap (-> swapoff). > > Swap usage doesn't change - I don't think there is much activity about > swap. There's a lot of free memory anyway.
What? If you're in an over-committed state, the kernel will, figur- atively, burn up the disk paging back and forth. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
