Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3103 mails)

[zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:53:04 -0500
PL O'Smith <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi all,
>I seem to remember several here complaining about their hard drive led 
>blinking about every 5 seconds and seeing a solution to it as well.  I 
>don't remember when those mails come out, so don't know which month to 
>look for them in the Archives.
>
>Does someone remember the fix, cause, etc., so that I might investigate 
>also.  I seem to remember it had something to do with reiserfs and 
>something.  I'll try looking at the help files Togan provides us too as 
>it might be listed there.  If something comes to mind, please pass it 
>along.

There was alot of people asking this, and they had different
causes. Search the archives for "hard disk" in the subject.
A google search might help you.

1. 1 fellow needed to stop the updatedb from running in a manner
      which flushes some buffers every 5 secs.
2. one thing was about some glitch in Win4lin, are you running that?

The best thing you can do, is log on as root, with no X running.
Then look at "top" and "ps auxww" and start eliminating
apps until the  clicking stops.  Then that is your app.

Check your logs, one of your apps may be writing something to
the system logs every 5 secs.



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