On Monday 13 December 2010 08:21:33 pm NoOp wrote: > > Did you try iotop? > > $ sudo apt-get install iotop > $ man iotop > $ iotop -o Yes I did. Mainly kjournald appears, but this (logicaly) continues after inhibiting all polling stops the harddisk light to pulse. Other things that sometime appear are gconf and gnome-settings-daemon. Thierry