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> The problem is that the hard drive will park (spin down) and then in
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> second, spin back up again. This repeats ad infinitum regardless of my > activities on the desktop. I've noticed the same thing on my Thinkpad 600, except I use blackbox standalone for my window manager, and just run KDE apps. Whenever I launch a KDE app, I get the same behavior. > I switch to fvwm2 for a while to see if the problem would continue. I > did this because I know that gnome would also park nicely but had since > Now, it parks just fine. It's wonderful. It's exactly as advertized. When I run blackbox with NO kde apps, it works wonderfully. KDE starts a bunch of communications daemons, specificly dcopserver and kded. I know that the dcopserver provides some sort of interprocess communication between kde apps, which shouldn't have any disk overhead. The kded program, however, is described as "KDE Daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates as needed." Sounds fishy... I am going to try and take a look at this over vacation, and see if it is indeed what is causing the disk writes. --- Michael Gayeski mrgayeski@students.wisc.edu |