Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
Hello again,
This is the second laptop I have got where this happens. There is tiny
hard drive activity consistently every 2-3 secs. By "tiny" I mean I can
hear the hard drive make a small noise for a split second. Sometimes its
so small that the hard drive activity light doesn't come on. The problem
is that it happens consistently every 2-3 secs...very annoying and also
causes me to be suspect.
Top doesn't show any interesting. I am using KDE 3.3.2. Does anyone have
any ideas about what might be causing this? Are there some services or
daemons that I can turn off?
Thanks for the help.
Have you tried running smartctl? You might be interested, also, in a
message posted on fedora-list a short while back advising subscribers
that the 2.6.10 kernels seemed to be hard on disks. In a thread titled,
"fc3 with kernel 2.6.10 stresses hard disk", Walter Neumann reported,
My current kernel is 2.6.10-1.766_FC3, but earlier 2.6.10 kernels did
the same. Booting back into a 2.6.9 kernel fixes the problem.
I fixed the problem for myself in 2.6.10 by adding "hdparm -B254
/dev/hda" to my startup scripts.
