On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:01, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:32, Björn Lundin wrote: > > James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > >> well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :) > > >> > > >> Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread, > > >> it would be nice to have a utility like that. > > >> /Björn > > > > > > The questions I would have (Yeah I know more questions no answers > > > *grin* ) are > > > > > > 1. Does this happen when you log into other WM's like Ice or Gnome > > > etc. This will narrow the problem down to something kde related or > > > not. dividing the world in half. > > > > Well, I like Kde so much, I don't have any other wm installed. > > I'll try installing blackbox or fluxbox... > > <later> > > Now, when I've installed Fluxbox, I notice NO disk activity. > > (Writing this in Fluxbox, I like the silence, but it's a bit sparse) > > > > > > 2. Could you do an ls of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and post that. It will tell > > > us what gets started just for runlevel 5 for sure. > > > > Won't do a whole lot of difference now, but here goes. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ ls /etc/rc5.d/ > > S03iptables@ S12syslog@ S25netfs@ S44acpid@ S65dhcrelay@ > > S90webmin@ > > S04acpi@ S13slpd@ S25shorewall@ S55sshd@ S75keytable@ > > S92lisa@ > > S05harddrake@ S14nfslock@ S26apmd@ S56xinetd@ S80spamassassin@ > > S98postgresql@ > > S05lm_sensors@ S18sound@ S30dm@ S60cups@ S85httpd@ > > S99devfsd@ > > S10network@ S20random@ S40atd@ S60nfs@ S85numlock@ > > S99linuxconf@ > > S11portmap@ S20xfs@ S40saslauthd@ S65dhcpd@ S90crond@ > > S99local@ > > > > In addition, a comparison with chkconfig --list reveals that the only > > service thats on in runlevel 5, and not in runlevel 3 is dm > > (diplaymanager?) which makes sense. > > > > > > > I'm running the same setup as you 9.1 + kde3.1.4 from Texstar + reiserfs > > > and don't have this condition. So something you have that I don't is > > > doing it. > > > > Well, it's a nice setup, don't you think :) > > > > > > Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. > > But what in Kde? > > > > > /Björn > > >
err... puncuation would help.... let me try again. > What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall, netfs nfs and > lisa, linuxconf httpd and atd. I've got nessusd smartd and win4lin, > that you don't have. I'm suspicious that Lisa is what is "polling" your > HDD but not sure. In my case as well, dm is the only diff between rl 3 > and 5. My initial reaction would be, turn off (if possible) the ones > you have that I don't, one at a time, then if it doesn't stop the polling, turn it > back > on and go to the next one. Sorry about that.... > > > As for the 9.1 + texstar combo. Yes love it. That's why my laptop > won't be in a hurry to move to 9.2. > > James
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