[wellylug] Hard drive being accessed?

[Jonathan Harker]

On Friday 15 Nov 2002 9:07 am, Shroeder wrote:
> When I have it just sitting there (logged on and in KDE/bluecurve), after
> about 30 minutes of no activity (as I'm watching TV) the thing seems to try
> to do something with the hard drive.  The hard drive light comes on and you
> can hear it being accessed (or what ever HD's do)

There are some update daemons that run from cron that cause random HD 
scrubbing. There's updatedb and medusa for indexing files, and there's an rpm 
indexer too IIRC. Try top at the command line - this will display cpu times, 
memory usage, etc. (press h for some interactive options, and q quits - I 
remember it took me a while to figure out how to quit things like man and 
top!  :-)

HTH

Cheers,
Jonathan

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