[wellylug] Hard drive being accessed?

[Shroeder]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Centurion Computer Technology Limited" <Centurion at paradise.net.nz>
To: "wellylug" <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Hard drive being accessed?


> 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.
>
>
> --
> Daniel Reurich
> Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
> Ph (04) 565 1344
> or (025) 374 387
>
Thanks, I'll give this a go next time it happens :)



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