When the light is on, can you hear a great deal of harddrive activity?
Also, is your CPU bogged down enough to slow every thing else? If this
is the case then you may want to check your swap partition and make sure
it's not full. When swap gets full, the harddrive will turn into a
runaway process.
Seve
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 1/9/01, 6:51:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie]
Hard drive light always lit:
> You might want to try running 'gtop' from the terminal to see what
processes are running. You will have to be su to run it.
> Barry :-)
> On Mon, 08 January 2001, "Miark" wrote:
> >
> > I don't think memory is the problem--I have 384 MB!
> >
> > Any other insights?
> >
> > Miark
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Irwan Hadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> > > At 11:57 PM 1/5/01 -0700, Miark wrote:
> > > >Hi all,
> > > >
> > > >I dual-boot to Windoze and Mandrake 7.2. In Windoze, the
> > > >hard drive light on my case acts as you'd expect, but in
> > > >Linux, it _never_ turns off. Does that mean that my drive
> > is
> > > >always running, or that the hardware mechanism that
> > controls
> > > >the light just loses its mind while running Linux?
> > >
> > > Probably you need more memory, because perhaps you have
> > too many services
> > > run at boot which consume the memory.
> > > to control the services, do ntsysv as a root.
> > >
> > >
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