[ltp] HD Noise

[Per Edin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesc Ferrer" <f.ferrer1 at physics.ox.ac.uk>
To: <linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] HD Noise


> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Josep Tarbal Casellas wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently installed Debian Woody on my computer with the kernel
> > 2.4.18. I recompiled the kernel in order to have the harward well
> > configurated. Everything works fine, but the hard disk does a noise
> > which I think it is not normal.
> >
> > The noise is like it is reading something in the disk very often. I
> > would like to know if this behaviour is normal or not. I would don't
> > like to damage my computer.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Pep
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Did it start after recompiling the kernel? Does top show anything
> running?
>
> Debian set in my laptop by default a cron job that tries to find and
> purge some files once a week causing such a noise.
Happened to me too, I always had a "find" session running, if I killed it
it got restarted in just a few minutes, killing cron and anacron made it go
away.

>
> Is it continuous? (Journaling file systems write to disk every five
> seconds).
Could be this too, when I used reiserfs/ext3 it was writing to the disk
every
~5 second.

>
> Bye,
> Cesc.
>
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