I can just be sittting, doing nothing, and I hear the sound of my hardrive head moving. Just every so often. Like some process is writing a log. I have looked in /var/log and do see occational updates to acpi and messages, but that does not account for all the clicks. Is there somewhere else to look for logs? I would really like to know what process has something to remember.....
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 07:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I can just be sittting, doing nothing, and I hear the sound of my > hardrive head moving. Just every so often. Like some process is > writing a log. > > I have looked in /var/log and do see occational updates to acpi and > messages, but that does not account for all the clicks. > > Is there somewhere else to look for logs? I would really like to know > what process has something to remember..... > <snip sig stuff>Are you sure it's log activity from the OS? Got "smart" drives? They doing anything? Maybe cache flushes (default 5 seconds, IIRC)? Checked your crontabs? HTH -- Bill
Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I can just be sittting, doing nothing, and I hear the sound of my > hardrive head moving. Just every so often. Like some process is > writing a log. > > I have looked in /var/log and do see occational updates to acpi and > messages, but that does not account for all the clicks. > > Is there somewhere else to look for logs? I would really like to know > what process has something to remember.....atop + a patch to the kernel would do wonders here methinks :D
Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I can just be sittting, doing nothing, and I hear the sound of my > hardrive head moving. Just every so often. Like some process is > writing a log. >Could be the drive doing a recalibrate or running SMART. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!