On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:21 -0700, Mike Duffy wrote: > Can anyone please explain to me why my hard drive continuously cycles > every three to five seconds, even when I am not doing anything? This > is incredibly annoying. > > I am using FC-4. Does anyone know if this bug (please don't tell me > it is a feature) has been fixed in FC-5? Does anyone know if there > are any other Linux distributions that do not have this bug? I found that CUPS and/or eggcups (print monitor) seemed to be involved with it, the latter in particular. The activity would stop if you logged out of Gnome (CUPS still runs, then, but eggcups didn't). -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
