Re: Hard drive making noise during network activity

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 15 May 1998 16:25:12 -0400


"Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net> said:

[...]

> The only large log files are maillog, and messages. The maillog
> file makes sense, since I can expect disk activity during
> "fetchmail", however ALL network traffic is generating this
> noise.

JUST network activity? Maybe you are seriously short on memory (Running
Netscape & X & ... on 8Mb? ;) and what you hear is just paging?

(My machine here pages like mad when compiling egcs-1.0.3a + X + emacs +
assorted others ;)

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