"Jane!!! Stop this crazy thing!!!"

[Filippos Klironomos]

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


On 5/4/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
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