Praise wrote:
Alle 18:21, venerdì 9 agosto 2002, Martin.Guillen@siemens.com.ar ha scritto:
Maybe its the kernel itself. I've heard about the kernel accesing disk at regular intervals.
I think it has something about the journaling fs. I had an ext3 partition and it accessed the disk all the time, causing it to overheating. I got back to ext2 and the problem disappeared.
Praise
I haven't seen the earlier messages with this Subject header so I am coming in part-way through your conversation. For several weeks now I have been trying to resolve why my HD was/is being accessed every 5-seconds. I have now found out that, in my case at least, it is not resiserfs per se which is causing this constant "HD hits" but Win4Lin which I have installed with SuSE (v8) and with reiserfs. (I am in correspondence with NeTraverse about this.) Someone in this forum mentioned a couple of weeks ago that when he shutdown seti-at-home on his system the "HD hits" stopped. What I found is that I have no "hits" if I boot SuSE without Win4Lin but as soon as I boot with Win4Lin the 5-second accessing begins :-(. What I also found is that if I have SuSE installed with ext3 the "hits" are also at 5-second intervals but this timing "drops" to every 35 seconds if I use ext2 as the file system. I did some testing today and found that it is not the Win4Lin patched *kernel* that is causing the problem but the Win4Lin program component - and you don't need to have Windows installed to start getting the "hits". If you have Kernel-Win4Lin and Win4Lin3 installed and both running and you then execute "rpm -e Win4Lin" on a command line the "hits" immediately stop. So, if you are getting "hits" then check which applications you are running that may be causing the "hits" because, as far as I am concerned, it is not reiserfs nor ext3 per se that causes this. I would be interested to know what you find as the cause of your "hits" when/if you find it. Cheers.