Vitaly Shishakov wrote:

i believe that is your filesystem (whatever you have installed on that drive) does some kind of sync every 5 seconds. most likely that is ext3

В сообщении от 19 Июнь 2002 16:59 Basil Chupin написал:

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I am running SuSE 8. Every 5 seconds my HD containing the OS is being accessed briefly (the second HD is not affected). I didn't notice this behaviour when I was running v7.2 (but then I probably wasn't really looking for this behaviour although would have noticed during the 10 months I ran 7.2).

Can anyone suggest why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds, and how do I stop this?

The default file system in SuSE 8 is reiser - so it's not ext3 being the cuplrit.

If it is the file system, how can I check to see why it is doing this - do you know? BTW, this is occurring on 3 different computers all running SuSE 8. Cheers.

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:14:14 +0200 Cees van de Griend wrote:

On Thursday 20 June 2002 14:50, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Can anyone suggest why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds, and how do I stop this?

You really don't want to stop this...

It's the Linux kernel which does this. File changes are not written to disk right away, but cached. Every 5 seconds, these change are written to disk.

See: man sync.

Note: AFAIK the kernel has always done this. Note: This is also one of the reasons why you never must switch off a running Linux system.

I thought the "journal" in the reiserfs would reconstruct everything on reboot if the system was shut off accidently or crashed.

I am having difficulty getting some audio feed to work with SuSE 8.0. I visited http://www.joyfm.com and clicked on "Listen live online". I was then greeted with the option to Save or Open and chose Open. I was then presented with a list of Linux apps within SuSE from which to choose. I tried Noatun and Kaboodle with no success. Suggestions, please? Thanks! doc -- Intentional, Biblical, Christian Trinity College of Florida Your journey with God continues here ... 2430 Welbilt Boulevard Trinity, Florida 34655 (727)376-6911(local) (888)776-4999(free) (727)376-0781(fax) www.trinitycollege.edu dcolburn@trinitycollege.edu

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:30, Charles Griffin wrote:

I went to that site and clicked on the same link. It appears that the audio streaming that site has chosen to use is ASX, which I believe is a Windows-only audio format for windows media player.

Use mplayer and make sure you install all of the codecs. Charles -- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)

On Thursday 20 June 2002 2:14 pm, you wrote:

On Thursday 20 June 2002 14:50, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Can anyone suggest why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds, and how do I stop this?

You really don't want to stop this...

It's the Linux kernel which does this. File changes are not written to disk right away, but cached. Every 5 seconds, these change are written to disk.

At 5 second intervals it's more likely to be kded checking to see if any files have been added, deleted or modified in the directories Konq is currently looking at. Try killing kded to see if that stops it. I don't know if you'd actually want to run KDE without kded though... -- There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't