Re: disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found out what my problem was here: xntpd, and the > always-said-to-be-sleeping apache :-) these two do do a regular access to > the disk, even if there is no connection and no network ... is this a bug? > > The solution leaded into a new problem: I _d

Re: disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, David Puryear wrote: > On 11-Aug-97 Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > > On Aug 8, 1997, at 07:05, David Puryear wrote: > > > Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four > > > seconds? > I finally got X to not acc

Re: disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > 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? > > Let's see, how much physical memory do you have? If it is less than > 16 MB, then X is going

Re: disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-16 Thread David Puryear
On 11-Aug-97 Lukas Eppler wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > 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? > > Let's see, ho

disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-09 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
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 whe

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1997-08-08 Thread David Puryear
Hi, I just noticed that this happens only when running X. Thanks, David On 08-Aug-97 David Puryear wrote: 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

disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-08 Thread David Puryear
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 so