Scot Jenkins wrote: > Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > >>I have fedroa core1 on a dell latitude and have noticed a lot of hard >>drive activity. The hard drive LED flickers constantly (sometimes goes >>solid on for a second or two). I install gkrellm and there's a little >>chart for disk activity - every second or so it'll chart disk activity. >> >>Is there any tools or commands I can use to see what process is making the >>HD grind ? I looked through a ps -ef and didn't see anything too suspect >>- I also have "turned off" uneeded services using chkconfig.... > > > Are you using ext3 filesystem? I had the same problem on a Thinkpad. > Didn't see any processes causing the disk activity. Turned out it was > ext3 filesystem which syncs to disk about every 5 seconds. Short of > editing source I didn't find this to be user tunable. Needless to > say this kills your battery as the hard disk never gets to spin down. I > went back to using ext2. I also run noflushd and stop all unnecessary > services that might log to disk often (atd, cron, sendmail) when on > battery. Battery lasts longer and disk is much quieter even on AC > power. The down side is if I ever have a lockup I have to wait for fsck > to run on the next boot. Since you are already on Fedora core, you might want to go all the way up to a 2.6 kernel and use laptop mode. http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/ I see there is a note on the above page about laptop mode in 2.4 kernels as well. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list