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arnuld
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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: unnecessary disk-access |
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i am using Gentoo 2007.0 and notice that when i am working or doing something then suddenly red-led of my cabinet, which shows disk-access, goes to high-intensity. i close X and i do not do any work on it but it repeatedly shows disk-access for continuously 5-10 min and i notice that everything goes slow e.g. if i "startx" at that time then it starts X slowly, 3 times slower than normal or if i copy some files then copy slowly and slowly as disk is already being used for some unknown reason 
this disk-access happens several times a day. why Gentoo keeps on accessing my disk even though i am not using or doing anything with disk ?
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no_hope
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: unnecessary disk-access |
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| Is it possible that the machine is swapping at those times? top might show you which process is causing that behavior. Also, try running lsof when disk starts grinding. |
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arnuld
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: unnecessary disk-access |
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| no_hope wrote: | | Is it possible that the machine is swapping at those times? top might show you which process is causing that behavior. Also, try running lsof when disk starts grinding. |
ok i will do that but by "swapping" you mean putting the programs from RAM -> SWAP ?
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arnuld
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: unnecessary disk-access |
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| no_hope wrote: | | Is it possible that the machine is swapping at those times? top might show you which process is causing that behavior. Also, try running lsof when disk starts grinding. |
i ran "lsof" in both cases and the only difference is "cron" jobs. when LED goes red, cron is running but i did not set up any cron jobs, i just installed "vixie-cron" and did not set it up, leaving it as is don't know cron is running
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| maybe it's updatedb. check out various cron files and directories in /etc |
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