Could be that your computer is swapping things to disk like crazy.  I
had this problem when my swap partition was too small.  just a
thought.

On 1/25/06, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've noticed how something on my Fedora3 seems to be
> thrashing the hard drive(s) very hard and long--just
> like a Windows box being rifled through by a virus
> checker or a find started at /. What could it be? How
> could I find out what's doing all the disk accessing?
> If it was the NSA they'd have a flashing icon in the
> desktop tray, right?
>
> Olwe
>
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