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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was > doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a > kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 > minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat > or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M > series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about > 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. > > Pat I don't think it's a "KDE thing". I think it is a cron thing (or an anacron thing, or whatever scheduler you are using.) -Ben
