An veejay spake thusly:
I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk so much (in GUI mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals
windows? What is it that it reads/writes so much? This is
irrespective of >m/c configuration.
veejay
My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem...
(wading in late, excuse)
What is the distribution ? 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.
With modern machines with more than 128Mb RAM I dont think you should have great problems. Gnome 2.2/KDE may require a bit of more RAM. Try not running XWindows and then see if the disk io continues. I suppose you gotta track down the problem first before searching for a solution.