rohitsz Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Greetings there, This problem is mandriva specefic(have't tried with other distros).. my hard disk generates continuous sounds, similar to the ones at the time of system boot up when the hard disks are detected by the system bios. The frequency is random, at times, it comes when the mandriva boots up or it may never come up in a session! This lasts atmost two minutes or until i run the following command: [root@localhost rohitsz]# hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: ST340810A: 47°C [root@localhost rohitsz]# After that the sound stops immediately. Its strange because i have a dual boot system with win98 and such sound are *never* heard there... My drive details are as follows: IdentificationVendor: ?Seagate Technology Model: ?40810A Media class: ?hd Bus identification Device ID: ?0 Connection Bus: ?ide Channel: ?primary Device Old device file: ?/dev/hda New devfs device: ?/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Partitions Primary partitions: ?1 (hda1) Extended partitions: ?4 (hda5, hda6, hda7, hda8) Misc Disk controller: ?0 Geometry: ?4865/255/63 (CHS) I have two such drives. any help, as to what i need to do to get over this problem!? thanks, rohit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Maybe your disk is working hard because of kat. Remove kat from your system, it's a resource hog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Run top and free -m in the console to see what application is using resources causing the fans to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohitsz Posted August 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Greetings there, Well i guess i am not running kat(the kde search tool!?),but how can i confirm that i am not running it.... Also here's the output of top and free -m: [root@localhost rohitsz]# top top - 17:56:24 up 6 min, 3 users, load average: 0.82, 0.51, 0.24 Tasks: 87 total, 2 running, 85 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 11.5% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 84.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515236k total, 281720k used, 233516k free, 12724k buffers Swap: 538136k total, 0k used, 538136k free, 141628k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2551 root 15 0 90400 8796 4416 S 5.6 1.7 0:16.72 X 3386 rohitsz 16 0 27176 14m 11m R 2.6 2.9 0:02.39 konsole 3602 rohitsz 15 0 98180 33m 18m S 2.6 6.6 0:24.90 mozilla-firefox 3363 rohitsz 15 0 12152 6316 4648 S 1.3 1.2 0:05.60 artsd 3374 rohitsz 15 0 27392 14m 11m S 1.0 3.0 0:02.34 kicker 3349 rohitsz 15 0 42264 13m 10m S 0.3 2.6 0:01.57 kded 3369 rohitsz 15 0 25248 13m 10m S 0.3 2.6 0:01.06 kwin 3379 rohitsz 15 0 25968 14m 11m S 0.3 2.8 0:01.10 kmix 3388 rohitsz 15 0 30340 14m 11m S 0.3 2.8 0:00.23 knotify 3631 root 16 0 2000 1040 804 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.07 top 1 root 16 0 1564 540 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.63 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 5 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 80 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kblockd/0 112 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 113 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 115 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 114 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 704 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kseriod 797 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald 932 root 13 -4 1560 496 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 udevd 1176 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 1565 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald 1566 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald 1592 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald 1991 root 16 0 1608 640 524 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 syslogd 1999 root 16 0 2336 1344 464 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.05 klogd 2049 root 16 0 1552 600 524 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 acpid 2113 root 15 0 20956 1432 1116 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 hpiod [root@localhost rohitsz]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503 275 228 0 12 138 -/+ buffers/cache: 124 378 Swap: 525 0 525 [root@localhost rohitsz]# does everything seems ok in the ouputs?? thanks, rohit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Hmm, mozilla-firefox takes 2.6% of the CPU and 6% of memory... Did you run anything in firefox (flash or movie?). I don't see firefox in my list of top applications at all. Also, that group of kde apps (artsd, kicker, kded, kwin, kmix, knotify). Do you really need all of them to run? AFAIK, knotify is completely useless, but takes a lot of resources. Try stopping it. Same is with kmix - unless you use it, remnove it from the system tray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 I've seen firefox spike up to 22% on my system. Nothing too ususual. Especially if you have a few tabs open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohitsz Posted August 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 (edited) Hi there, Hmm, mozilla-firefox takes 2.6% of the CPU and 6% of memory... Did you run anything in firefox (flash or movie?). I don't see firefox in my list of top applications at all. Also, that group of kde apps (artsd, kicker, kded, kwin, kmix, knotify). Do you really need all of them to run? AFAIK, knotify is completely useless, but takes a lot of resources. Try stopping it. Same is with kmix - unless you use it, remnove it from the system tray. I do't know why mozilla was up there... i was using the browser for just reading mails and MUB, for around an hour that's all.. Also what do these kde utilities do... i mean i could not find kmix in my system's tray... any one place where i could know in more detail what these are and remove them accordingly! edit: ok i know now kmix is the volume manager, but i need it always as the pcm2 setting of that tool is always set to low when i start the system..so i'll need to keep that to reset that vaule otherwise i do not get good sound on the speaker.. PS:am i going Off Track of the original problem!? ;-) thanks, rohit. Edited August 23, 2006 by rohitsz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 There's usually a load of icons right by the clock. A lot of these will represent open tasks. Of course, that is if you have the system tray applet on your taskbar in KDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 (edited) To see if Kat is running just open MCC.........Services and see if it is ticked. If it is then untick it and click on stop. Then do yourself the biggest favour of all, kick Kat of your computer completely. It is the worst program of its type around and causes nothing but misery. Cheers. John. Edited August 23, 2006 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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