Hi,

I have a crappy old laptop that is on its last legs, but I use it as a print server (and as a linux server) on my network - so it is fairly useful to me.

I leave this laptop on all the time, but only access it over my network occasionally. As such, I thought it would be nice to use HDPARM to get the hard drive to spin down after about 30 seconds to prolong the life of my hard drive.

This works, but for some reason about every two - three minutes the hard drive mysteriously spins up, whirs for about thirty seconds and then spins down.

I thought this may have been due to the fact that I was almost totally reliant on swap space (only had 64MB), so I upgraded to 200MB - same problem.

Tried monitoring processes to see what is causing this, but to no avail.

Running RH9, Compaq Armada 1750.

Anyone help?

Doc

I noticed the exact same thing on my thinkpad 770 (yet another beater laptop) - the hd spins up every 4-5 minutes - i turned off all logging and cron jobs .. could it be the the reiser fs journal kicking in ? here are the vitals - thinkpad 770 e p2 266 , 128 mb ram and 5.2 gig hd , red hat 9...

thanx for any help ...