On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:20, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Felix Miata wrote: > > >My HD never stops since installing severn. This doesn't happen in > >windoze or SuSE, didn't happen in shrike. I don't recognize anything in > >top that might cause this. All that useless activity interferes with A/V > >play. The noise is annoying too. How to I find out what's doing this and > >stop it? > > It's probably prelink getting ran via a cronjob. Out of curiosity, is there any way to put the system in "laptop mode" (I don't just mean the kernel changes) and have this stuff turned off automatically? The hard-drive activity isn't being nice to my battery life. -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.