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?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Olwe Bottorff
</b> <<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've noticed how something on my Fedora3 seems to be
<br>thrashing the hard drive(s) very hard and long--just<br>like a Windows box being rifled through by a virus<br>checker or a find started at /. What could it be? How<br>could I find out what's doing all the disk accessing?
<br>If it was the NSA they'd have a flashing icon in the<br>desktop tray, right?<br><br>Olwe<br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
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