On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:49:10PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/21/12 11:35 PM, Woodchuck wrote: > > What is this transmission daemon of which you speak? > > its a bittorrent thing. peer to peer file exchange Ah, so. Thanks. Yeah, if it's active it's probably hitting the disk. iotop and possibly netstat might tell the tale. Dave -- "If government had taken over the auto industry in 1920, today we'd all be driving Model-T cars -- and saying, 'If it weren't for the government, we'd have no cars at all.'" -- Harry Browne