Re: About gconfd-2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:55:42AM +0100, dballester kernpharma com wrote:
>      After install a fresh RH80 on my laptop, i can ear the disk working
> every 4-5 seconds. Taking a look to the top and process monitor seems to be
> ( I'm newbie, can be sure ) the gconfd-2 process who is making the work
> with the disk. I've been waiting to see if this works ends at any time, but
> never stops. It's normal for gconfd-2 to be writing always to disk, and be
> the 1st process on a top command, every time?
> 
> May be is trying to create any type of databse but something is wrong and
> is trying again, and again, and again? ( No strange messages in logs ) :(
> 

No, it should not be touching the disk every 5 seconds, unless some
application is setting a gconf value every 5 seconds (which is
possible, probably). Try to see which files under ~/.gconf have their
timestamp updated every 5 seconds.

Havoc