Hi; I was the one that posted the first question about the regular accesses to my hd. I tried both of the recommendations, killing magicdev, and adding the "noatime" option on / in /etc/fstab. The "noatime" reduced the size of the access from 25K to 16K, but it did not eliminate it. Killing magicdev did not have any effect that I noticed. So I did a complete format and install of rh9 to see if I had broken something, but no, a fresh install has the same issue. Gordon Messner points out that this is a Nautilus issue, and as it happens, when I was using rh8 I used KDE, and now I use GNOME. So maybe GNOME/Nautilus has been doing this all along? -P On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 18:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (i recall someone asking something like this recently, but i managed > to not save the response, if there was one.) > > on my dell inspiron 8100, when it's just sitting there idling, there > is a regular blast of HD activity, just about every 5 seconds. just > a "tick tick" ... pause ... "tick tick" etc etc. > > someone suggested that perhaps magicdev was responsible but i'm > not running magicdev. i've looked through the list of running > processes, and nothing jumps out at me as needing to regularly > do disk activity. > > any hints? > > rday -- * <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
