Harddisk question

[victorsk]

Hello,

I have a question about my computer running FC6. I've noticed that a harddisk tends to spin (like it's processing something) for long periods of time and I am not even doing anything. I was wondering, is there a way to make it not do that because I slows down processes like opening Firefox or shell window.

I have 256 RAM it is a Celeron laptop, so I thought maybe it is caching. I gave 800MB to swap space during installation but I'm a little vague on memory optimization and I think that is the problem. Please, let me know how I can optimize the performance.

Thank you,
Victor.

[daverj]

my first guess is that with only 256M ram, you have a fair amount of swapping going on. You should increase your ram.

davidj

[Brian1]

It is more than likely the cron file called prelink running. it is located in /etc/cron.daily directory. Search here to learn about it or on google. What I do is run once a week. So i moved the file from there to /etc/cron.weekly.

To see if this is the case when it is going on run the command ' top ' to see what processes are happening.

Brian

[victorsk]

Cool, thanks!