Quoting Bruce Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Michael, > > Thanks for that. I had tried ps & top, but this did not seem to point > > to the culprit process. I was hoping for a tool that would show > explicitly what processes were hitting on the disk - there are such > things for Solaris & NT. > > The disk itself is fine (I think!) - there is no tapping when I use > RH7.3 or even W98 (the games OS). Also, each "tap" sounds like a bit of > > head movement, and the disk light flashes - hence my guess that a > process is up to no good somewhere. Maybe its a cron item being ran? what happens it you stop cron, and say at from running. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
