Sjoerd Simons writes... > That's strange it shouldn't poll your scsi hard disks at all. On my scsi syst > em the addon only runs for my scsi cd drive, not for my scsi hard drive. > > Could you mail the output of lshal on your system ?
I wasn't totally sure that it's hal, but it seems to be the only thing that showed up in top(1) that coincides with the clicking. I tried shutting off everything I could think of and checked obvious cases like log files being written to, etc. I asked around and someone suggested that it might be the ext3 filesystem updating a timestamp in the superblock. That seems more likely than the hal thing I guess. So consider my problem fixed. It still seems like a waste for hal to be checking so often. It's too bad it has to poll at all, but I guess there's no way around that? I also realize the frequency is so that users can be quickly prompted when a CD is inserted. It would be nice to have a way to turn this feature down or off if you don't want it. Consider this a wishlist request for that. Sorry for the false alarm. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
