Constant disk access with hardy

R. Wood rw at ncf.ca
Fri May 30 17:27:34 UTC 2008


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Allegedly, on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0400, Andy Boersma stated:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I installed 8.04 my disk light is flashing consistently
> 
> I stopped all indexing etc, but it is still flashing.
> 
> Anybody noticed the same and found out what it is??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andy

Run this at a command-line:
  top

Whatever is hogging the CPU should be revealed.

HTH,
Raymond
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