funny hard drive "activity"

[Sy Ali]

It looks like gam_server [1] is the culprit.

And maybe the settings are aggressive.

/etc/gamin/gaminrc has:

#fsset ext3 none
poll /*

So I suppose the problem turned out to be my distribution's use of it..


[1] http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
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