>I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
>hard drive.
>
>I noticed that the hard drive LED was flickering about once a second while
>in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME) but goes away if I exit X Windows.
I have noticed that my CD light blinks once a second because of the X
stuff that detects CD insertion - it has to poll the drive. Your
system may only have one LED for both CD & HD, as some older systesms
did.
>
>I left the system alone in X for hours Saturday. When I returned the hard
>drive was running continuously and it took about ten seconds for the mouse
>pointer to move in response to physically moving the mouse.
Was it a little after 4PM? I have seen this: cron runs
daily/weekly/monthly jobs after 4AM, and if your clock has AM/PM
reversed, the system does it at 4PM. Check your clock, and if
happens again, do a "top" command to see who is running...
>
>Any Ideas?
>
>Also, I had Win95 on this box (still got it on a seperate drive) & browsing
>there is MUCH faster than Linux/Netscape.
You want fast? Use the KDE browser for web sites - no Java[script]
support, though (I heard maybe in version 2?). I usually only drop
to netscap for "fancy" sites that need bells & whistles.
--Pete
>
>Does this make sense?
>
>Bruce.
>
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