An veejay spake thusly: >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk so much >>(in GUI mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals >>>windows? What is it that it reads/writes so much? This is >>irrespective of >m/c configuration. >> >>veejay > > > My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem...
(wading in late, excuse) What is the distribution ? What machine config ? More importantly do you have anything running in the background ? Excessive logging ? You have some inefficient program running in the background which updates a few KB file on disk every few seconds ? There could be many reasons. Your problem seems not to be a generally observed phenomenon. With modern machines with more than 128Mb RAM I dont think you should have great problems. Gnome 2.2/KDE may require a bit of more RAM. Try not running XWindows and then see if the disk io continues. I suppose you gotta track down the problem first before searching for a solution. -- quasi Utopia Unlimited! -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
