On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 06:00, Danny Yee wrote: > I have a Fedora Core 1 system which is generating disk activity every > 5 seconds or so, even when it should be idle. (The hard drive light > flashes, then there's a quiet whir followed by a "chuck" -- presumably > the drive spinning up and then engaging.) > > If I quit GNOME this activity goes away. > > Is this normal? Is there any way to stop it (it can't be good for > the drive)? > > Dann. Out of curiosity is this a laptop? I have never noticed a drive spinning down in normal use on a desktop machine. Is it possible you are having a drive problem? Take a look at smartctl to test the drive. Also check /var/log/messages. Other than that, does ps -efw show you anything out of the ordinary? Does the problem happen for all gnome users? If not what's different? Bob...
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