Roy Britten wrote: > On my desktop at the moment I'm noticing brief HDD action every 5 > seconds or so. Is there some tool that will allow me to see which > application / process is accessing the HDD? > > SuSE 9.1 > KDE 3.2 > > Cheers. > Roy. >
Its probably the filesystem making sure everything is written to disk. throw noatime onto the mount options for your drive to stop it updating the time files were accessed, and hence requiring the disks to be flushed. >From some random website... "By default the disk is accessed everytime you open a file, even for reading or executing, to save the access time." I think noflushd might also be useful if you want the disks to spin down. Sascha
