From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqIJH-0003q9-IH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:24:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j66MLNe6013217; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:21:23 GMT Received: from geronimo.freeparking.co.nz (geronimo.freeparking.co.nz [66.70.106.220]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j66MGjT5001583 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:16:46 GMT Received: from rugosa.mydomain (ip-210-185-6-93.internet.co.nz [210.185.6.93]) (authenticated) by geronimo.freeparking.co.nz (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j66MHcd09224 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:17:39 +1200 From: Bogo Mipps To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] HDD LED flashes constantly in X Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:16:36 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507071016.36491.bogo-mipps@e3.net.nz> X-Archives-Salt: cb59963a-d2d2-4768-b2d8-4a030031bc46 X-Archives-Hash: 2bb750b50621efa42882979423c9e535 Ever since I emerged KDE 3.4 this week the LED for my HDD's have developed a regular 2 per second flash - while the system is sitting ostensibly idle. Can't see anything significant in the way of processes (top & ps aux), and googling produces nothing similar anywhere. When I close X, the rhythmic beat of the LED stops! Performance doesn't seem affected, but the thought of this constant churn disturbs me. Any ideas appreciated. Bogo -- Sent via KMail 1.7.2, & o/s Linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list