Bug 57010

Summary: hard disk activity every 2 seconds -- caused by firewall???
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: sigma_enigma
Component: firewall-configAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 7.2   
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Description sigma_enigma 2001-12-03 06:20:48 UTC
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Description of problem:
Someone emailed me that my hard disk is accessed every 2 seconds because
the OS is looking for my firewall...  Another person said that autorun was
to blame,  but after killing autorun the noise persisted.  the noise is
driving me nuts -- is there any way of fixing the problem if it is a
firewall issue?  Several other people have posted on the Red Hat site,  but
nobody seems to have found the actual cause.  My best lead is the firewall
(which I configured upon installation,  but do not know how to deactivate
or reconfigure).  Thank you for your time...  Matt

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Log in	
2.  Noise begins and persists.
3.  None of the processes I kill has any effect on the noise
	

Additional info:

When I use the process management utility I can see the CPU activity cycle
from about 0 to 3% at about the same period as the hard drive activity. 
I've tried killing as many processes as I can but nothing stops the noise.

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2001-12-03 12:02:19 UTC
you may have a look at /var/log/*:
try as root and see what is happening:
tail -f /var/log/*


Comment 2 sigma_enigma 2001-12-05 02:38:29 UTC
Created attachment 39651 [details]
/var/log  exerpts that look suspicious

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2003-08-05 08:20:16 UTC
this is the kernel flushing buffers to the disk