Very good points. Trying to understand Linux from a theoretical point of view.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit : > > On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > > > Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there > > > should be no HD activity. > > > > Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally > > move things to swap space. Of course, you can disable swap... > [...] > > If you use ext3 filesystems, there's the journal flush happening every 5 > minutes. >
