> > 3. When I do boot and get logged in the machine does a > > disk write every 5 seconds or so. This is worse when > > running X. Is this something to do with the way my particular > This is likely the ram, if you don't have enough ram and you're > running many > things, it will swap to disk. 128M (all visible ok, and only about 32 in use (free tells me)) so this not the problem > I have experienced this myself on a newly built RH 6.2 machine. What > happens for me is that my CDROM drive (ATAPI one) has a seek error and > the kernel / modules continually try and talk to the drive, especially > under X (I know there is a Gnome option which says to recognise the > drive and see what cd, if any, is in it to autostart whatever > application is related to it). This sounds likely. If this is the problem how can I disable the automounter? > This doesn't happen out of X, but in X every few seconds it hits the > hard drive (it's actually just reporting the errors to > /var/log/messages). > > I'm looking at how to fix this at the moment but I'm recompiling my > kernel with the ATAPI support built into it instead of as a module. This also sounds likely. I'll watch messages to see (machine not up at this moment (need to reinstall as its a mess because of attempts to fix this)). If this *is* the problem how can I disable messages from X going there and not disable other messages going there. In any case, this didn't happen with RH6.1 on a Notino I had (hardware broke - tosh is replacement). How could this be so? Andy -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Heath Home:+44 (0)114 2885738 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards
