Re: recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious disk activity)

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:41:16AM -0800, nate wrote: > > Your electric bills my be outrageous... > > If I were in california I'm sure they would be! Not really, Oregon got stuck with thier price increase. Oregonians saw thier bills raise between 33% and 310%, which is why we're all wondering,

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:32:57PM -0800, nate wrote: > Ron Johnson said: > > > Leave it on, and fall quickly to sleep listening to white noise, > > while lowering the house's thermostat, since you have an auxillary heater > > in the room. It's a flat in a large Victorian house which has been con

Re: recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious disk activity)

2003-01-28 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > Your electric bills my be outrageous... If I were in california I'm sure they would be! But I'm in washington, and my last bill was about $91. And last time I checked I use about 4 times the power as the average family in washington according to my power company. $91 is very

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > Leave it on, and fall quickly to sleep listening to white noise, > while lowering the house's thermostat, since you have an auxillary heater > in the room. I like white noise, but unfortunately not all computers emit such noise. my tivo is one, as is my laptop, I gotta turn on

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 15:37, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:03:05AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:58:04AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > Hi, [snip] > No, I switch it off when I'm not using it. I sleep in the same room > and 4 fans and 6 disk drives make a lot of

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:03:05AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:58:04AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I get these occasional very long bursts of disk activity, usually but > > not always within an hour or so of booting up, during which the HD LED is > > on continu

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:58:04AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > I get these occasional very long bursts of disk activity, usually but > not always within an hour or so of booting up, during which the HD LED is > on continuously and the machine is very slow to respond. There were > cron jobs runn

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:57:57AM -0800, Steve wrote: > Maybe the disk needs defragging? Or, you need more RAM :-) I've got 512Mb, and there's no swap being used. I'll try the defrag, but the fragmentation level is only around 5-6%. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with