[wellylug] Hard drive being accessed?

[Centurion Computer Technology Limited]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 09:07, Shroeder wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I'm a bit of a newbie (and have about 5 questions I need to ask - however I will take them one at a time)
> 
> I've got RedHat 8.0 installed (of CD's) on a multiboot machine.
> 
> When I have it just sitting there (logged on and in KDE/bluecurve), after about 30 minutes of no activity (as I'm watching TV) the thing seems to try to do something with the hard drive.  The hard drive light comes on and you can hear it being accessed (or what ever HD's do)
> 
> If I open a terminal and type a command (some delay is evident in response) then things go back to normal..
> 
> Any ideas on what I need to do to fix this (I assume I've set something up wrong??)
> 
> Thanks

When it does it's thing, open up a terminal and enter 'ps -e'.
This will give you a list of what processes are running.  You have
probaly got some service running that you don't actually need.  I might
be updatedb, which  updates the "locate" db periodically, although it is
normally set to go at midnight each night or something like that.


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