[TriLUG] help: Fedora constantly hitting disk

[Tim Jowers]

how would you troubleshoot this? I see the disk light bliinking on and off
constantly. 4-5 times per second.

Happening on two machines with Fedora 8 and latest updates. On one it seemed
to not happen when I went into kde instead of gnome but I'm not at that
machine now.

Doing a top and adding the nFault and nDirty did not help. I just cannot see
what process (or driver?) is constantly hitting the disk.

Thanks for any insights!
Tim Jowers