First of all Rusell, WHEN USE UPPERCASE YOU ARE SHOUTING. It is
considered impolite.
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:28:36PM +1000, Russell Andrew Willis wrote:
> I am running a Pentium 350 II 64 MB RAM & 10 GB HDD. RH runs ok under
> XWindow & Gnome but I get get continuous HDD access when logged on as
> user or root. When I log out this ceases. I'm a newbie & can see it has
> something todo with the Xwindow or gnome system. Have enclosed a copy of
> top command showing activity after a few disk accesses (no other progs
> except browser). Frustrating & would appreciate guidance.
The image hasn't come through for me (and no doubt others) because it was
never attached to the message.
You are supposed to get frequent disk access whenever you use Linux as it
will be flushing data to disk (or swapping). To determine which of those
it is doing type 'free' at the command line. If most of your swap is being
used then you have two choices:
- get more memory
- run fewer programs
Anand
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