On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 11:25 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. > > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is > happening. > Google does not seem to be too friendly. > > Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance.
Hard to say without details. On a normal GNOME setup tracker starts indexing after a login, but it should stop if the system isn't idle and it would probably also show up in top too as it tends to use a bit of cpu. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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