richie Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 Hi I notice the hard disk light flashes every minute or so, is it normal for the hard disk to have activity every minute even though the PC is on and just setting there, not being used? I've checked the logs, nothing there and there is no swap activity. Is this usual behaviour? I have two machines, different hardware, one running Mandrake 10.0 CE and one running 10.1 CE and both do it. But I don't know why. Thanks Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 go to Mandrake Control Center->system->services. check if any type of monitoring services are running. FAM (file alteration monitor) is a likely culprit. syslog, cron are 2 others. if any of those (or other services you don't need) are running, turn them off & stop them from starting at boot. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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