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?
Yes, I observed this also. In my case lights on the computer cases don't actually flash (maybe bursts of data are too short to activate it?) but I can observe them as a row of little "pings" in gkrellm, which I tend to keep running on my desktops. As others noted, I think the journaling file system is to "blame" for this, because it occurs on both of my machines - one runs Suse 8.0 with Reiserfs, the other Mandrake 8.2 with ext3. Both machines run KDE or Gnome at different times, and this behaviour persists in all combinations of systems and desktops. I'd suggest, don't stress too much over this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for some people's greed." - Gandhi -- 10:20am up 2 days, 19:07, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00--