On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:25:57PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > See what "lsof" (list open files) has to say. > Interesting command. It seems a little bit beyond me... is there a way to sort the output by access time as well? the list of files is fairly long -- 258 lines even with a minimum set of processes running... (output attached, hope it's not annoying)
thx, matt > Curt- > > On Monday 01 March 2004 11:35, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power > > efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I > > don't use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and > > atd. Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the > > output of ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning > > back up spontaneously. Who's accessing my hard drive?? I don't have > > the slightest idea how to find out, or (even better) figure out how > > to stop it from happening. > > > > Can anyone help me with this? > > > > thx, > > matt >
