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

[Garrett Mickelson <garrett penguincomputing com>]

Would this not be the medusa index program? I had a hell of a time with
that, as it would run the disks hard for over 10 min. on my box. I had
to kill it then track it down, as it was set to run in a cron job. I
found the cron.daily entry for it and got rid of that. It seems a great
technology, but the stress on resources is just too much.

Garrett Mickelson

On 21 Jan 2001 11:23:48 -0800, 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
> 
> 
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