Well I'm hardly an expert, but I think most distributions have a tool available from the gui menu which allows you to look at running processes and see some statistics on them. Perhaps having a look at that when there is little disk activity and then comparing it to when there is heaps would help. Wouldn't hurt to focus on memory usage as well in case its you swap partition that is getting hammered.
Regards Rob T > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Donohue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 7:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] constant hard disk access > > > Hi Slugs, > I have a Mandrake 9 box. Turn it on and after a week or so of running > the hard disk access light seems to stay almost constantly > on. This will > continue for about a week and then stop back to normal ie very low > activity. Give it another week or two and then another week or so of > hard access again. If I reboot the box (ah windows training) > the access > is normal till a week or so and then heavy access all over again. > > I currently have no clue of where to start looking for what > is causing > this. It is not access from the internet or myself or others. Any > pointers as to where to start (to help my Linux learning) would be > greatly appreciated! > > Ben > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > ************************************************************* This mail, including any attached files may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to receive information for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ************************************************************* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug