On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bruce Muirhead wrote:
> If it can't be fixed, I will certainly be ceasing using ubuntu and going
> to a distro which doesn't cause constant HDD activity, so I really would
> like to get some ideas as I don't want to use another linux!
The writes every 5 seconds are the result of the journalled ext3 filesystem.
If it is continuous, *continious* hard-disk usage, it is likely
reading/writing swap as a result of not having enough real memory.
How much RAM do you have in the machine? What does the output of:
$ free -m
say?
-Paul
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