I've also found that the gnome-applet "wireless link monitor" keeps ticking the hard drive every second. Based on signal strength the applet re-reads the same set of png files in /usr/share/pixmaps/wireless-applet/. I'm probaby going to wear those sectors out on my hard drive! ;-O Ideally, these small png's need to be kept in memory rather than continously re-read every second. -eric wood > * wrote: >> I did the strace thing (thanks for the info there), and I found that >> eggcups, magicdev
