I am running Debian on a (mostly) woody system, an HP Pavillion n5425 laptop, Athlon 900, 384Mb RAM, reiserfs. I've been running Debian on the system for about 6 months.
This evening, I installed KDE 3.1 from Ralf's debs (thank you Ralf), and it works great. However, one strange thing has started happening - constant disk access. Only in KDE. It stops as soon as I log out to kdm, doesn't happen in Gnome, but while I am logged in to KDE as any user, the hard drive is being accessed, non-stop even before I open any apps. I ran top to see what might be causing the problem, but nothing seemed to be taking up any undue share of the system. This doesn't strike me as a KDE issue, but as it only happens in KDE, I thought I'd try here first. Anyone seen this behavior?? I am not quite sure what to be looking for here, so am at a loss as to what to do next. If anyone has any ideas, would me much appreciated. Bruce
