On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Bill Shannon wrote: > > I think I've reached the limit of what I can do remotely. Now I have > to repeat all these experiments when I'm sitting next to the disk and > can actually hear it and see if the correlation remains. Then, it may > be time to dig into the ksh93 code and figure out what it thinks it's > doing. Fortunately, I've been there before...
One thing that can make a shell periodically active is if it is checking for new mail. Check the ksh man page for descriptions of MAIL, MAILCHECK, MAILPATH. Perhaps whenever it checks for new mail, it also updates this file. Unsetting the MAIL environment variable may make the noise go away. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
