>> This aft, I notice the HD was flashing all the time and I wanted to see >> what kept it busy. >> >> The first thing I noticed with "top", is that there are two users. >> Issued >> the command "users" and saw my user name twice. Looks like I'm logged in >> twice. Why is that? > > You are probably running 2 shells. What does the "w" command tell you? Probably? You mean surely! One where I'm logged in: tty7, and since I opened a terminal to run "top" or "w", that's 2: pts/1. So, unless you run "top" logged in a shell, not-graphic mode, you have 2 users. Dammit, it takes quite some time to make a Linux expert! I don't remember coming across this "w" command and I wonder where else than here I could have got this explanation. The "w" command! >> The only process I couldn't figure out that was at the top of "top" was >> multiload-apple(t-2). "free" shows that buffers are increasing by 8 KB >> each time the light goes on. This seems somewhat related to Firefox >> running. It persist some time after it's closed, than stops. > > Its a part of the gnome-applets RPM. OK. But it's not what writes to my disk, because I tried XFCE and multiload-applet is not used by XFCE. So let me ask the question more directly. How to I learn which process keeps writing 8 KB buffers to my disk when I do nothing and my modem is switched off? Thanks! P.s.: Writing emails in this web interface at altern is really a pain. What's the way to register to this mailing list without having one's personal email address divulged? For instance, in your case, kjchome.net/ doesn't seem like a valid address. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
