On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 02:40, * wrote: > I did the strace thing (thanks for the info there), and I found that > eggcups, magicdev, fam, and xscreensaver, and that stopped the regular > accesses of the hard drive. Each one was responsible for some amount of > the total. Both eggcups and xscreensaver were checking local time, among > other things. > > How is it that all of these processes access the hd at exactly the same > time? the kernel will delay/cache IO for upto 5 seconds
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