I posted on the same thing happening (hard disk light flashing every second or 2) but it only happened while X was running. I reinstalled Fedora and it's not doing it any more. I'm not sure what I did to cause it but it did happen. Sam. Johnny Fulcrum wrote: >> Is the hard drive activity happen "only" when you have X running? > > > No sure - I had to send the laptop off to the end user - so I can't > check now. Why do you ask? > >> >> Sam. >> >> Johnny Fulcrum wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi- >>> >>> I have fedroa core1 on a dell latitude and have noticed a lot of >>> hard drive activity. The hard drive LED flickers constantly >>> (sometimes goes solid on for a second or two). I install gkrellm >>> and there's a little chart for disk activity - every second or so >>> it'll chart disk activity. >>> >>> Is there any tools or commands I can use to see what process is >>> making the HD grind ? I looked through a ps -ef and didn't see >>> anything too suspect - I also have "turned off" uneeded services >>> using chkconfig.... >>> thanks >>> johnnyf >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>> Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >> Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list