Hald and hard disk activity

[Ron Morse]

I don't know about the rest, but the periodic disk activity 
(I see it here, too) will cause no problem. Ignore it.

Regards


On Thursday 13 July 2006 17:37, John wrote:
> With a fresh install of Kubuntu 6.06 all appears to be
> fine except the hard disk light briefly flickers every
> couple of seconds, even when I have left it with nothing
> to do for a long while.
>
> Running "top" did not show anything major running, but
> the hard disk activity is very brief, just often.
>
> Looking at "ps -aux" I started to kill processes.
> Eventually, I find that the excessive hard drive activity
> can be switched off by killing the six processes:-
>
> hald-addon-acpi
> hald-addon-keyboard
> hald-addon-storage
> hald-addon-storage
> hald-addon-storage
> hald-addon-storage
>
> I am assuming that the hardware abstraction layer daemon
> is concerned with testing to see if any new devices are
> added such as USB items.
>
> What problems will I find if I kill these processes?
> Is there anyway around these?
> Does the hard disk activity matter (Will it cause the HD
> to wear out faster?) or should I leave it alone and put
> up with the constant flickering of the led?
>
> John