michelle wrote: > That's it. That explains the disk activity in single user mode. I tried a > console login after normal boot and thought I had the same issue, but it's > something altogether different. The normal login does some sort of database > updating that does a lot of disk access (find, sort, and updatedb show up > in a ps listing. What is this for BTW?)
That's the daily debian cron job. If it's happening 5 minutes after boot you're probably running anacron, or tyically get up and log in at 7 am or whenever that runs. > I was doing a kernel compile and booted to single user thinking it would be > faster, but all of the logging made it much slower. Can I kill bootlogd in > single user mode when I don't want it? bootlogd was disabled by default in a recent ugrade of the sysvinit package. It is *very* useful for headless boxes and lots of other things though. -- see shy jo
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