> >
> > If nothing else the xterm is going to trigger updates to the
> > last-access time on its pty, every time top refeshes the display.
>
> No it doesn't help.
> The traffic on the system disk is more than just inode update: about 800K/s,
> 60 T/s
>
and if it was because of that it wouldn't depend of other activity like
copying.





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