20 Jun
2002
20 Jun
'02
15:36
On Thursday 20 June 2002 2:14 pm, you wrote:
On Thursday 20 June 2002 14:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
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