It could be the cron job for updating the locate db or some other type of search system. Is the thrashing going on at the same time everyday? On 1/25/06, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > > I've noticed how something on my Fedora3 seems to be > thrashing the hard drive(s) very hard and long--just > like a Windows box being rifled through by a virus > checker or a find started at /. What could it be? How > could I find out what's doing all the disk accessing? > If it was the NSA they'd have a flashing icon in the > desktop tray, right? > > Olwe > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060125/6fe61bef/attachment.htm