On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:23:35PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:06:02AM -0500, michelle wrote: > > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > > > > What CPU? How much memory? What speed memory? What sort of disks > > > (bus type, speed, etc.)? What does 'hdparm /dev/hda' report? > > > > > > It sounds like you're hitting a bottleneck in the hardware > > > configuration. > > > > > > > Pentium 4, 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 200 MHz RAM > > IDE Bus, 400 MHz system bus > > IDE cable supports UDMA-33 and ATA-66/100 > > The hard disk supports pio 1-4, dma through mdma 1-4 and udma 1-5 > > nVidia TNT2 AGP video card > > > > booting single user in 80x25 text mode gives still gives me the hard disk > > acces on each keypress. > > > > Oh yeah, I'm using sarge with various kernels (2.2.20, 2.4.22, 2.6.0-test9, > > 2.6.0-test11) all giving the same results. Previously, woody was on this > > machine, and this problem didn't occur. > > > > Is there a configuration file somewhere that sets the amount of memory to > > use for the bash shell? If so, what is it? And could it be set to something > > absurdly small? > > > > Or is this perhaps from a keylogger secretly installed? If so, how could I > > detect it? > > > > Thank you. > > Just hit me. What file system are you using? > iirc ext3 updates its journal every 5 seconds and reiserfs every 30 > seconds. If its ext3 try mounting it as ext2 and see if that makes a > difference.
Hi Folks, if its 'disk' activity for what ever reason, do what I do on laptops to save time/cpu: mount the partition 'noatime'. This should eliminate some if not all unnecessart write access?! -Kev
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