I'm suffering from this too. Running Edgy, 2.6.17-11-generic on an Asus A8M laptop. I'm seeing constant hdd access every 2-3 seconds.
Does anybody have any ideas? -- hard disk being accessed every 4 sec. https://launchpad.net/bugs/17878 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs