q u a s i wrote :
What is the distribution ?
RHL9
What machine config ? More importantly do you have anything running in the background ? Excessive logging ? You have some inefficient program running in the background which updates a few KB file on disk every few seconds ? There could be many reasons. Your problem seems not to be a generally observed phenomenon.
P4@1.6GHz, 128MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 256mb Swap, default windowmanager, KDE as desktop.
The installation is the default desktop installation, with no customisation whatsoever. This system is a test system, that i installed to test this very fact. I have seen this happen on every linux box that I have come across, *regardless of m/c configuration*. One of my buddies commented to me once, and i quote - "The main reason why Linux is not very popular in cybercafe's is because apps like browsers & office applications take too long to open." And hence this discussion thread.
Try not running XWindows and then see if the disk io continues.
If you have read my first post regarding this matter i specifically mentioned that this is obsererved *only in GUI mode*.
cheerio veejay
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