At 11:16 PM -0400 3/17/2012, JohnV wrote:
[G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11]
When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly
chattering away to itself?
It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again.
RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6 ITUNES 8.2.1
Probably Spotlight's indexing processes. They do their work at low
priority, during idle times.
Launch Activity Monitor. Set it to update less frequently. View all
processes. Sort by %cpu, in descending order. Give it about 15 secs
to update a couple of times, and average out the numbers. Then take
note of the top processes.
The Spotlight processes go by names like "mds" and "mdimport" and
"mdworker" etc.
- Dan.
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