The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 21:58 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
The Sunday 2005-05-22 at 17:48 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........
How do you know? :-?
How do I know what? I hear the drive being written to.
Ok, ok. I suppose the led lights as well. I don't see that behaviour here, but that doesn't mean much. Many things could cause it... even watching the log files if you mount the partitions normally: each time a file is read, the atime timestamp is updated; thus I mount "noatime". Are you using kde? Close it, observe. Change to runlevel 3, observe. If still ocurring, start closing services one by one, and observing. I don't know if there is a way to "cat" which processes are writing to the disk in real time. Then, there are some settings related to powersavings in /etc/sysconfig/? that apply. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson