Without any details, I'd have to assume that you need more RAM.
Constant hard disk activity usually indicates excessive swapping. Run
level 5 starts the xserver at boot time, which uses a pile of RAM by
itself.
You may want to repost and give details on your hardware and running
processes.
On Tuesday, September 15, 1998 1:42 PM, Carl T Drake
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> I am a newbie and have the following question. While running
Redhat5.0,
> does anyone notice a lot of hard drive activity even when only one or
two
> users are logged on the system? I am running runlevel 5. The
activity
> log shows a lot of activity even when I am the only one logged on and
the
> hard drive is constantly spinning. Also the whole sysem slows down
> considerably.
> Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>
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