gilson redrick wrote:
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 00:10, Basil Chupin wrote:
This being a SuSE mailing group then it would be safe to assume that everybody here must be running SuSE. May I then ask how /your/ system is behaving? Is your HD being accessed every 5 seconds, or in some other regular pattern?
Hi:
In /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html_single/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html I find the following:
The daemons kflushd and kupdate handle this work: kupdate runs periodically (5 seconds?) to check whether there are any dirty buffers.
Could that explain your harddrive being accessed?
Apologies to all for taking a long time to respond on this topic/question which I started a while back but I have been occupied on other things (including upgrading my system). I have been doing some testing and can say that, at least in my case (and a friend's), the 5-second access phenomenum is caused by Win4Lin: as soon as I boot SuSE without the Win4Lin kernel the 5-second accessing ceases and the system is quiet as a mouse. I am in touch with NeTraverse (Win4Lin) re this matter and they are investigating. I think I read a while back that someone found that by uninstalling seti-at-home stopped the 5-second accessing which he was also experiencing - I now wonder what seti and win4lin code have in common to cause this accesing. I'll mention this to NeTraverse in case it is of help to them. In my test I have also found that the 5-second access occurs when the fs used is either reiser or ext3 but the acces time "drops" to every 35 seconds when ext2 fs is used. Cheers.