Re: GNOME perodically accesses my disk

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I am running Debian sarge on my Laptop. Recently I noticed that GNOME
> periodically accesses the disk  (Every 5 seconds or so, the disk is
> accessed for about 1 second). This only happens when GNOME is running.
> Without a running Xfree/GNOME, i. e. only the console terminal is up,
> the disk is quiet.
> 
> I wonder if this is OK? Or did I setup GNOME the wrong way? Is GNOME
> looking for something that should be present. but really is absent?
> 
> I would be glad, if someone could comment on this.

Can do. :)

Don't worry, this is fine AFAIK. The GNOME Desktop got some daemons,
that periodically sync data to disk. This probably happens even some
more, depending on your currently running applications.

This is a known issue to some degree (read: could be optimized), but it
is necessary for some applications. For example Evolution tries hard not
to lose the mail you're composing, even if someone turns off the machine
cold.

HTH

...guenther


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}