On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > on my dell inspiron 8100, when it's just sitting there idling, there > > is a regular blast of HD activity, just about every 5 seconds. just > > a "tick tick" ... pause ... "tick tick" etc etc. > > Nautilus is stat()ing /etc/mtab. /etc's atime is being updated. The > journal is flushing. > > Try adding the "noatime" option to / in /etc/fstab. Either that, or use > ext2 instead of ext3. what i did was to remount / with "noatime" while the system was running. that didn't seem to change anything, either. so i guess rebooting with / mounted as ext2 is my next strategy. is there a utility that can show me processes and their respective disk activity? "top" certainly doesn't seem to help there. rday
