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HD Noise

Re: VPN with Fedora - PPTP

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Carter J. Castor

Thursday, 29 January 2004 Thu, 29 Jan '04

11:13 p.m.

I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.

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Prasanth Kumar

Thursday, 29 January Thu, 29 Jan

11:32 p.m.

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:13, Carter J. Castor wrote:

I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.

Does this activity always happen on the same time of the day? It could be tasks scheduled by the crontab daemon. Look at the file /etc/crontab. By default Fedora Linux has something like this: 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly The first number on the line is the minute to start. The second number is the hour. The third is the day and so forth. So the daily tasks here start at 4:02 AM. You could move the start time to sometime when it disturbs you less. Or else go to the specific directory and look for tasks you don't really need. In this case /etc/cron.daily. -- Regards, Prasanth

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Joel Jaeggli

Friday, 30 January Fri, 30 Jan

10:04 a.m.

slocate in /etc/cron.daily is looking for all you files... joelja On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Carter J. Castor wrote:

I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.

-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja(a)darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2

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Robert P. J. Day

10:14 a.m.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

slocate in /etc/cron.daily is looking for all you files... joelja On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Carter J. Castor wrote: > I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; > however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits > by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to > suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.

there are cheaper alarm clocks than a dell inspiron. :-) rday

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Wade Chandler

Thursday, 1 April Thu, 1 Apr

1:26 a.m.

Carter J. Castor wrote:

I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.

It is probably running updatedb. This is what locate uses. This gives you very fast file searches using the locate command. If you haven't ever heard of locate or used it then you can probably disable this without a care. Wade

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Jonathan Rawle

4:05 a.m.

Wade Chandler wrote:

> I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; > however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits > by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to > suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it. > > It is probably running updatedb. This is what locate uses. This gives you very fast file searches using the locate command. If you haven't ever heard of locate or used it then you can probably disable this without a care.

If you don't leave your machine on at night, it does this each day after it's been on for an hour. It isn't only "updatedb" that is running at night, but also other useful things such as "prelink" and various log rotation scripts. I suggest changing /etc/crontab so that these jobs are run during the day. Simply change the three number "4"s to "12" to run them at midday, or "9" to run them in the morning, etc. Then they won't wake you up at 4am! Jonathan

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Ben Halicki

4:14 p.m.

Run top to see what process is running at the time. As Wade suggested, it is most likely updatedb. Regards, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wade Chandler" <wchandler(a)redesetgrow.com> To: <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:26 PM Subject: Re: HD Noise

Carter J. Castor wrote: > I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; > however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits > by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to > suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it. > > It is probably running updatedb. This is what locate uses. This gives you very fast file searches using the locate command. If you haven't ever heard of locate or used it then you can probably disable this without a care. Wade -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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Ben Halicki
Carter J. Castor
Joel Jaeggli
Jonathan Rawle
Prasanth Kumar
Robert P. J. Day
Wade Chandler