On Friday, 7. September 2007 09:45, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) > The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time (it's > read/writing) > > which script cause reading/writing? Let's assume it's default installation. > I don't start any program myself. One a bit 'noisy' one is updatedb, which updates the locate database. Other candidates might include logrotate and other stuff in /etc/cron.* Then there's swap possibly and a ton of other stuff. My very low end PC makes noise each time I log in with ssh. With 'sudo lsof' you'll get a list of open files. Maybe someone else is able to give you more detailed information.
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