> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Andor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:34 AM > To: Udo Burghardt; debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: kded accessing HD every 500ms? > > > Hi Udo, > > On Friday 29 November 2002 5:22 pm, Udo Burghardt wrote: > > Am Freitag, 29. November 2002 11:42 schrieb Daniel Andor: > > > Since I upgraded from rc2 -> rc3 KDED now makes the hard > disc's head move > > > every 500ms when it polls the filesystem. > > > > Just guessing: may be you can manage this by adding "noatime" to the > > options of the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab. At least this solved a > > similar problem like this for me some time ago. > > I've tried that: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount > /dev/hda6 on / type auto (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > but to no avail. > > Any other suggestions as to why it's doing this? Perhaps kded is > desperately > trying to write to a log or error file? How can I find out? > > Thanks, > Daniel.
You can always use find. Sign on as root, then run this: sleep 310; find /var -mount \( -type d -o -type f \) -mmin -5 This will find anything modified in the last 5 minutes on the /var partition. This should be enough to get you started finding the problem.
