funny hard drive "activity"

[Jamon Camisso]

Sy Ali wrote:
> On 2/16/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Cron running updatedb?
> 
> Aah, that would be a good one.  It was almost on the hour when I was
> checking, so this is quite reasonable.  I'll keep an eye out for this,
> but I'm fairly sure I've seen this sort of oddity at non-hourly times.
> I'll check out any other cron jobs.
> 
> Also, a screen saver under some conditions could act in this way, but
> I don't use one.  I actually had to struggle to just make the screen
> just go black.  ;)

Fedora likes to run makewhatis and prelink at the most inopportune times 
once a day. Both use lots of CPU and acess the disc... Something to 
check, not sure if PCLOS (if that's what you still use) has those set to 
run.
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