Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 05:49, eric huff wrote:
> About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity.  On 
> gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K.
> 
> Any idea what this is?  I can't find any logs that are being updated this 
> often.
> 
> I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> eric
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
It does help.  Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to update
it's journals.  I had the same question when I was running filesystem
comparisions between Reiser and XFS.

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