Hey all,

So I just put up a new Linux rig
(Ubuntu desktop 12.04 amd64, i5 3470T processor, 4gb ram,
AND a Mushkin Enhanced 60GB solid state drive).

I'm a Linux newbie, so bear with me, but I've been with WCG for about 2 months now.

Long story short, I installed iotop and ran sudo iotop -a, and am seeing that an "idle boinc" process manages to do a few MB of disk writes every second.

Needless to say, I am troubled, as I have my client set to write to disk no more than every 900 seconds (since I hear this cuts down on SSD exhaustion).

The SWAPIN and IO> columns are both at 0.00% for that process, and the COMMAND reads (enigmatically) "../../projects/www.wor~193244926253088 40002 0"

There's also another "idle boinc" process which writes about a tenth as much, but still enough for me to be concerned about it, whose SWAPIN and IO> are also both 0.00%, and whose COMMAND is "../../projects/www.wor~_00.gpf -seed 225534140"

In closing, halp. I'm not sure if I should be concerned about the high DISK WRITE numbers, and if I should be concerned how I can get them to shtahp.

edit: iostat readings:
Linux 3.5.0-37-generic (Linus) 08/10/2013 _x86_64_ (4 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
4.31 89.02 2.20 0.04 0.00 4.42
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util
sda 0.92 5.95 1.65 4.22 84.88 916.95 341.33 0.41 69.41 2.08 95.67 2.00 1.18