Hi, Since I upgraded from rc2 -> rc3 KDED now makes the hard disc's head move every 500ms when it polls the filesystem. Before the upgrade, the polling was set to the same frequency, but there were no disc accesses -- presumably most polls are cached. Since I have a laptop, this completely kills any possibility of disc spinnig down, and is quite annoying to listen to. Any ideas what may actually be going on? Thanks, Daniel.