Re: mysterious disk access every 5 or 10 seconds

[Yung-Hsiang Lu <luyung yahoo com>]

I did not run netscape; therefore, it should be
something else.  Is there a way to find out the
answer, instead of just guessing?  

Thanks a lot!

> 
> I had the same problem.  I was determined to fix it
> because the 
> noise from my 7200 RPM drive led to trouble falling
> asleep.  I 
> determined that it was netscape when it was on a
> page with an 
> animated GIF (ad banners and the ilk).  Now, when I
> log off of my 
> dialup account, I make sure that I leave netscape on
> a page with 
> static images, or shutdown netscape altogether.
> 
> You probably would have figured out something so
> obvious by now.  
> Try searching for applications that have animated
> figures/icons or 
> would have some other reason to swap pixmap data in
> and out of 
> display buffers.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sourav Mandal
> 
>
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> Sourav K. Mandal
> 
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Department of Physics
> http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/
> 
> "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than
> efflorescence of language. We must be simple, 
> precise, terse."
> 
>                       -- Edgar Allan Poe, 
>                         "The Poetic Principle"
> 
> 
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Sincerely,
Yung-Hsiang Lu

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