Melissa's laptop (a Thinkpad T20 running Debian Woody) has this habit of
doing disk access quite often. (It's mostly noticable when it's quiet in
the house, like right now, so I decided to investigate :^) )
The 'symptom' (assuming this is even a problem, and not just normal Linux
behaviour) is to make a very short disk access sound ('click!'), and then
about 1/2 second later, a slightly longer disk access ('clililililick!').
Also, the second time is usually the only time I notice the hard drive access
LED light up above the keyboard.
I tried switching to single user mode and killing off as many processes I
could, to try and see if anyone was having 'issues' and constantly logging
to files somewhere. (I'm not a /proc or strace guru, like Mike Simons,
and I haven't kidnapped him yet, so all I really checked was an
"ls -lrt" listing of /var/log, so far...)
The machine currently has an uptime of about 4 days (I wonder what's up with
that? maybe Melissa forgot to charge it one day ;^) ), and I don't see
anything particularly troublesome going on. Other than normal
"apt-get upgrade"s, no configuration changes have occurred in a while.
Of course, perhaps it's been doing this all along, and we never noticed until
recently.
I guess my biggest concerns are:
1. Hax0rs
2. Dying hard drive
If it happens to be:
3. Messed up driver / daemon / etc.
or 4. Normal Thinkpad / Linux activity
...then I'm not so worried, obviously. :^)
Thx in advance
-bill!
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