On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:15 am, many eyes noted that Kwan Lowe wrote: > > What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? > > If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. > > Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. > > I turn every app I see off, but still no result. > > Probably some sort of log. You can try sending logs to a remote server or > shutting down syslog entirely to help troubleshoot. Take a look in > /var/log and see if there are any files that are growing or with recent > timestamps: > > $ cd /var/log > Sort by size > $ ls -lSrh * > Sort by date > $ ls -ltr
Possibly try:- find / -type f -mmin 01 that should tell you what files have been written in the last minute. Also maybe try:- ps auxwww that should show you all the running processes and might be of help? Charlie. -- The dignity of a man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. Martin Esslin This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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