Boot up, 30 minutes of disk thrashing.

I am running Suse 10.0 i386 patched and recently I noticed the disk runs for 30 minutes after boot up. This is CONSTANT disk thrashing with no interruption. The only things consuming CPU are the X server and some mono stuff (Could this be beagle indexing info?) The machine is almost unusable. What commands can I run to see which PIDs are monopolizing the disk.

3GHz HT P4.
Intel 875PBZ board
SATA
3Gb RAM.

Just point me, please.

Thank you.

-T
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