18 Feb
2008
18 Feb
'08
03:44
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Fredag den 15. Februar 2008 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard: >> Torsdag den 14. Februar 2008 skrev Aaron Kulkis: >>> Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> _ on my SuSE10.3 plain vanilla, there is heavy disk i/o at startup. So >>>> much that it renders my PC nearly unuseable. This goes on for like 10 >>>> minutes. Then goes away, all is good. >>>> - initially I thought it was Kmail doing something...may still be. >>>> >>>> A "ps auxw" gives me 50+ lines with >>>> >>>> vk 3725 0.0 0.2 25428 4756 ? S 09:06 0:00 kio_file >>>> [kdeinit] file /tmp/ksocket-vk/klaunchermnooIa.slave-s >>>> >>>> I did remove beagle/kerry the other day, using the advise given by David >>>> C. Rankin of this list. This worked (I think) very well. So I take it, >>>> it's got nothing to do with that? Any hints? >>>> >>>> >>>> (Beagle, I did: sudo rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep beagle) kerry && rm -r >>>> ~/.beagle) >>> What does top say? >>> >>> If need be, make a script S99top in the /etc/init.d/rc.5 or rc.3 >>> directory, like this >>> >>> #!/bin/bash >>> # run top on a konsole screen >>> /usr/bin/top <> /dev/tty3 >>> >>> Then after the boot-up is at the point of giving you >>> system logins, just ctrl-alt-F3 to tty3, and look at >>> what top tells you. >> You lot are a sharp bunch :-) >> I'll try out the suggestions and report back. >> - thanks again! >> > > I promised to report back...well, Beagle/Kerry has gone. > Just fine. I've not touched my computer for 2 days, just > switched it on. > Worked fine and normal...until I fired up Kmail. It went > berserk with file i/o... > > That went on for aprox. 10 minutes, then all went away. > Everyting is now normal, all is good. > > It's not all that serious, but, of course if you've got a > good idea...also as to what I could do to further investigate. > > Never mind, have a nice weekend - for what is left of it :-) > Well, at least we and you know the source of the problem now. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org