On Monday 09 January 2012, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
I was running resource hungry applications such as Thunderbird, Liferea and sometimes copys data in GBs the RAM was full (I was getting only 4GB out of 8 and most of the times the resources were using around 3+GB RAM). Is that a possibility that low RAM can lead to HDD churning?
When system starts swapping then you'll get high HD load. If you even run fully out of memory could be that your system becomes unusable at all and you may come to the wrong conclusion "My system freezes because of the HD noise". But who knows ... could also be you have some bad blocks on swap partition causing problems when system is swaping only. Just check it to be sure: badblocks -s /dev/sda cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org