On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:18 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
>
> When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there
> still be I/O activity on the root disks?
Yes.
> If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ?
Writing to log, cron jobs
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 p
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.
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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
Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there should be
no HD activity.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
> >
> > When the
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is more of a theoretical Unix question,
>
> When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still
> be I/O activity on the root disks?
>
> If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ?
Depends entirel
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