[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are > seeking the hard drive? Some program, system call, or something is > causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or > two.
Try using strace to see what all the daemons are doing. Most will just be sitting there in a select or accept waiting for a connection somewhere, or waiting for a few minutes to see if something's changed Other programs keep accessing files, which changes the access time and means the disk needs to be updated. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .