On Aug 8, 1997, at 07:05, David Puryear wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four > seconds? I'm using debian 1.3.1 with 2.0.29 on a laptop, so I > trying to make the battery last as long as possible. But with > constant accessing of the disk when I'm just typing is draining the > battery way too fast.:( Hope someone has idea as to how to change > this behavior. > > Any hint as to how to find out would be appreciated, thanks, > > David
Let's see, how much physical memory do you have? If it is less than 16 MB, then X is going to swap a lot. That could explain it. -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
