Well, there are all sorts of background processes associated with X-windows mostly. Open sockets and such, ACPI daemon communicates every now and then also, you get the picture. Just do a /usr/sbin/lsof and you will be suprised by the number of open files!!!! Filippos <div>On 5/4/06, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:51 -0700, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > The commit interval to sync the buffers is 5sec if I am not mistaken. > So every five seconds the kernel empties the buffers and writes their > data on disk. But wouldn't that only do something if there was something in the buffers? If there was nothing else writing or reading to drive, surely that task would do nothing every few seconds? (If programmed well.) -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com"> fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>