On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Richard Creighton wrote:
Tero Pesonen wrote:
Hi all!
I subscribed to this list to ask about this issue. I've not found almost any coverage on this topic, or then I've searched for wrong keywords on Google and on various mailing lists.
My issues is as follows: I've recently upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 from SuSE Linux 9.3 on my desktop PC. This is no server or anything, and I'm the only user.
I've noticed that at least on my upgraded installation the system seems to be almost constantly accessing through file I/O's the "/" mounted disk and also the "/home" partition. I realised this as I studied the output given by "iostat." If I leave it to monitor the system while running X and KDE, it shows constant "blocks written" action on hda, which contains both the root partition "/" and home partitions. <snip> My initial question and impression is Beagled. That is one of the first things I get rid of in 10.2+ as it occupies way too much CPU and disk resource doing its indexing. Is it running on your system? If so, does it help if you disable/remove Beagle?
No, nothing relating to Beagle is running according to Ksysguard. Also I'm quite sure I uninstalled it rather soon after I upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 I checked again, and "Su" -> "ps x" prints the following PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? Ss 0:01 init [3] 2 ? S 0:00 [migration/0] 3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 4 ? S< 0:00 [events/0] 5 ? S< 0:00 [khelper] 6 ? S< 0:00 [kthread] 9 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0] 10 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid] 11 ? S< 0:00 [kacpi_notify] 123 ? S< 0:00 [cqueue/0] 124 ? S< 0:00 [kseriod] 166 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 167 ? S 0:00 [pdflush] 168 ? S< 0:00 [kswapd0] 169 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0] 418 ? S< 0:00 [kpsmoused] 832 ? S< 0:00 [reiserfs/0] 890 ? S<s 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1273 ? S< 0:00 [khubd] 2552 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/acpid 2578 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/resmgrd 2588 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/polkitd 2599 ? S 0:00 hald-runner 2941 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdc 3298 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -C -D -K -N -t 999999 -h TP -c /etc/sysconfig/ 3619 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/famd -t 4 -T 0 -L 3648 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd 4017 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 4021 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 4023 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 4024 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 4032 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 4070 ? S< 0:00 [kauditd] 5623 ? Ss 0:00 login -- tero 5681 tty7 Ss+ 4:36 X :0 -auth /home/tero/.serverauth.5655 -nolisten tcp -nolis 5929 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/powersaved -d -f /var/run/acpid.socket -v 3 6848 pts/2 S 0:00 su 6851 pts/2 S 0:00 bash 6857 pts/2 R+ 0:00 ps x -- Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org