From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) 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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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.
you may have a look at /var/log/*: try as root and see what is happening: tail -f /var/log/*
Created attachment 39651 [details] /var/log exerpts that look suspicious
this is the kernel flushing buffers to the disk