Is the hard drive activity happen "only" when you have X running? Sam. Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > Hi- > > I have fedroa core1 on a dell latitude and have noticed a lot of hard > drive activity. The hard drive LED flickers constantly (sometimes > goes solid on for a second or two). I install gkrellm and there's a > little chart for disk activity - every second or so it'll chart disk > activity. > > Is there any tools or commands I can use to see what process is making > the HD grind ? I looked through a ps -ef and didn't see anything too > suspect - I also have "turned off" uneeded services using chkconfig.... > thanks > johnnyf > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list