On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:39, Björn Lundin wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > >> > 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. > > Hmm, I removed the ones you don't have, except shorewall, since > I'm directly connected to the internet. Wouldn't want to be without it... > I did shut it off for a minute though, but I still got disc activity every 6 > seconds! I even tried the classical M$ trick (reboot) but still no luck, > but I now finally got rid of some services I don't need, like nfs... > > I also went in to Kde's control center and played with > Compoments|Servicemanager and shut everyting I could off, like KWrite > deamon, and Mount watcher, essentailly everything I could find, but still > no luck > > Everything associated with Lisa is also turned off, on the client side. > > The KAlarm deamon looked suspicouis, but killing it made no difference... > > Starting to kill my processes one by one, starting with 'kded'. > Got lucky, this is the one. Now I can google it, and found: > > " > > kded continually > > accesses the disk about once per second, and as a result, even when > > I'm not "doing anything" so to speak on my computer, my hard drive > > will never spin down. > > I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could > make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific > *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. > " > > Give this a try... and reboot > > <cries of happiness> > And YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES,YES > </cries of happiness> > > That did it :) > > >> 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. > > I'm thinking that kernel 2.6 would make me upgrade, so I'll wait for a > stable release that won't make me recompile the kernel. Every time I > tried, I always end up with a new install :( > I'm always doing something wrong! > > Thanks for your patience, all > > /Björn
Cool! I may not have had an answer but I hope I helped in finding it. James > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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