Just wanted to thank everyone for their time and responses.
I've been sick and busy - so haven't had time to try them out yet but I will
print them all out and get back if necessary.
Thanks to all of you.
Bruce.
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> > 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
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> 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.
As Peter Cavender pointed out, both GNOME and KDE have components which
monitor removable media to suppo
under GNOME it's called magicdev, and you can't remove it w/o a --force to
RPM as there are other package that claim to need it.
--rdp
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, ed wrote:
> Check for an autorun process, which is the process to detect media change
> in the CD. I have found this process is a huge re
Check for an autorun process, which is the process to detect media change
in the CD. I have found this process is a huge resource hog and I
disabled it to fix a similar problem.
Ed
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> On 20 Nov, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> > I have Red Hat Linux 7 running o
Today, Tom Rauschenbach gleaned this insight:
>
> I believe that something else is going on. Why would an idle system behave
> this way ? Granted, this system is light on memory but it should work. I
One example would be, let's say the screensaver kicked in. The X server
requires memory to d
Today, Stephen Ryan gleaned this insight:
> > 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.
>
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> On 20 Nov, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> > 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 g
>
>Yes, it makes sense. You have all the classic symptoms of not
>enough memory. Your problem is right here:
>
> > I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
> ^^
>and
> > in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME)
>
>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 becaus
On 20 Nov, Bourdon, Bruce wrote:
> 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 left the system
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 left the system alone in X for hours Saturday. When I returned
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