On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 07:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I can just be sittting, doing nothing, and I hear the sound of my > hardrive head moving. Just every so often. Like some process is > writing a log. > > I have looked in /var/log and do see occational updates to acpi and > messages, but that does not account for all the clicks. > > Is there somewhere else to look for logs? I would really like to know > what process has something to remember..... > <snip sig stuff> Are you sure it's log activity from the OS? Got "smart" drives? They doing anything? Maybe cache flushes (default 5 seconds, IIRC)? Checked your crontabs? HTH -- Bill