Re: mysterious disk access every 5 or 10 seconds

["Sourav K. Mandal" <smandal mit edu>]

"Yung-Hsiang Lu <luyung@yahoo.com>" wrote:

> I did not run netscape; therefore, it should be
> something else.  Is there a way to find out the
> answer, instead of just guessing?  

Open up 'top -d 0.1' in a term window (the "-d 0.1" sets the delay 
between the refreshes to 0.2 s, much faster than the usual 1 s).  
Then, try to correlate the hard disk activity with an increase in 
CPU activity of a process (other than 'top' obviously).  If you 
cannot make a correlation, then it is probably the 'kupdate' kernel 
disk update daemon, as another poster has suggested.

Sourav Mandal

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