Re: Laptop and hard drive spin in GNOME 2.x

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:55, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:30:49PM -0800, George Farris wrote:
> > I have RH8.0 installed on my laptop and when logged into my desktop
> > (GNOME) the drive light blips very 5 seconds or so.  I remember someone
> > else reporting this.  Is there a known problem here?
> 
> This could be as simple as the fact that you are using an ext3
> filesystem, so it goes to disk every five seconds.
> 
> Malcolm

Except when I logout of GNOME it settles down quite nicely.  I'll do
some more prices tests but I do know that when logged in it's a constant
blip on the drive.


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George Farris <george gmsys com>