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>I found that my Redhat6.2 tries to access my hard drive about every 5 >seconds. I'm using a 256M RAM P3 with 1G swap, So I am really curious >why redhat access my HD so often.
Check cron jobs. Check how much memory is actually in use. Having a big swap file won't reduce access to the Hard Drive, as the swap is on the hard drive to begin with.
Fester
While your system does do various logging and flushing to disk, you might see your drive light go on frequently when some program is simply checking the cdrom to see if anything changed.
For example if you are running Gnome I think it is 'magicdev' that checks the cdrom. In Settings/Peripherals/CD Properties you can control if or what it automatically does. KDE may have something similar.
David Efflandt
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