Re: [Nautilus-list] what the HECK is nautilus doing with my disks?

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro eazel com>]

"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> 
> I build nautilus from 2001-01-20-13:05 tarballs last night.  It works
> fine, except that is does something unholy with my disks!  When I start
> it, the disks run HARD for over ten seconds.  They make a very high
> pitched seeking noise, as if they are doing repeated track-to-track
> seeking.  Using strace, I see that sync is called (via IIOP) thousands of
> times when nautilus is starting.
> 
> When nautilus is running, it does the same thing.  Every time I hover the
> mouse over an MP3 icon, the icon gains the little musical note, and the
> disks seek HARD for perhaps 1/3 second.
> 
> This is extremely annoying as I have quite loud disks in an array, and
> they all seek in unison.  I'm even afraid that it isn't good for the
> hardware.  What on Earth is this software doing to make the disks run like
> that?  Why sync so often?
> 
> I suspect GConf.  Am I right?
> 
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Baker
> 

Its possible.  I just checked in a fix (yesterday) for a bug that caused
unneeded gconf sync activity at startup.  This might have fixed the
problem you are seeing.

If not, please file a bug.  thanks.

-re