I unmounted the ReiserFS and vfat partitions. Disk activity continues. Setting 'top' to 0.1 second updates seems to show kdeinit, X, init, keventd, and maybe hotpluguid as the most active. But it's really hard to tell. Interesting that hotpluguid seems to jump from way down on list to very top at somewhat regular intervals.
Unplugging the 2nd hard drive would take some work as that's where <swap> and /home are. Thanks. dep pontificated eloquently: > begin Michael Hipp's quote: > | New mobo (P4 1.7 GHz, 256M, 845 Intel chipset w/DDR memory, 2 IDE > | hds on chan #0). Ext2 filesystem, tho I have an Elx partition > | mounted that is ReiserFS and also a vfat Win partition. Not sure > | what you're asking specifically about swap but 'free' says: > | total used free shared buffers > | cached Mem: 255532 184120 71412 1024 > | 3196 95168 -/+ buffers/cache: 85756 169776 > | Swap: 321260 0 321260 > > hmmm. how often does reiser write to the journal? > > also, what happens if you unplug the second drive? > > finally, if you *watch* top, does anything change when the disk access > takes place? -- Michael R. Hipp "The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws." -Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
