[mythtv-users] Constant diskactivity?

[Leo Weppelman]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:12:39AM +0200, Christoffer Kj?lb?k wrote:
> tir, 2004-10-12 kl. 01:19 skrev Donavan Stanley:
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:54:05 +0200, Christoffer Kj?lb?k
> > <christoffer at kjoelbaek.dk> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I think I have a problem with my frontend. I have constant diskactivity.
> > > The litle LED is flashing twice per second. As soon as I quiet the
> > > frontend, the LED is stopping. Why is this?
> > 
> > Because you're watching TV and that uses the disk.
> Nope, the system is just "idle". No TVcard activity, no videoplaying, no
> musicplaying. Nothing!

Check the mysql log. If you have a default debian install, all queries are
logged. The frontend constantly queries the database and hence writes
the log constantly.
If you want your disk to be quiet, just turn down the mysql logging.

Leo.