[MPlayer-users] Re: Cache limit...

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:17:07AM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:54:43 +0300
> Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:
> 
> > You've probably got atleast syslog and cron that touches the disk.
> 
> Syslog really doesn't have anything to write...  I disable cron on most
> machines, especially notebooks.

BTW: why should cron touch the disk if you haven't altered a crontab?

> Why would I access the start menu while watching a movie?

And not everyone has a "start menu".
 
> I can look through the output of "ps -ax" and assure you that I don't
> have anything running (other than what's been mentioned) that needs to
> access the disk.  XF86 doesn't access anything while it's up and
> running, my window manager baely ever accesses the disk, and certain not
> when it's just idle.  My file manager doesn't access the disk when it's
> idle in the background, etc.

yep.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried