Em Dom 12 Jul 2009, Boris Epstein escreveu:

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Marcelo Magno T. Sales

wrote:

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Hello,

I have OpenSuSE 11.1 installed and very often, after the machine is idle for a few hours, some process starts using the disk very heavily. When I get back to the computer it is almost unusable, everything is freezing and lagging while the disk continues working heavily. After a few minutes it gets better, but something still continues using the disk. I don't have beagle installed. How do I find out which process is accessing the disk when this happens?

Thanks,

Marcelo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Marcello,

In general, here's a command that tells you who uses a certain file:

fuser <filename>

Run it as root. See manpage for more details.

Upon seeing your kind of situation I would suspect it's beagle that's to blame. beagle is an indexing process which is very "expensive". I don't have much use for it so I just remove it from all the machines I am running OpenSuSe on.

Beagle is not installed in this machine. fuser is not very useful in this case, because I don't know which file(s) is/are being heavily accessed. []'s Marcelo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Em Dom 12 Jul 2009, James Knott escreveu:

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

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Hello,

I have OpenSuSE 11.1 installed and very often, after the machine is idle for a few hours, some process starts using the disk very heavily. When I get back to the computer it is almost unusable, everything is freezing and lagging while the disk continues working heavily. After a few minutes it gets better, but something still continues using the disk. I don't have beagle installed. How do I find out which process is accessing the disk when this happens?

Thanks,

Marcelo

Open a terminal session and start top. That will show what's keeping the CPU busy.

Nothing is using more than 3% CPU. The problem what is using the disk. []'s Marcelo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Em Dom 12 Jul 2009, Jan Ritzerfeld escreveu:

Am Sonntag, 12. Juli 2009 schrieb Marcelo Magno T. Sales:

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[...] How do I find out which process is accessing the disk when this happens?

Install atop from the server:/monitoring repository, start it, and then press 'd'.

Perfect! Thanks, Marcelo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org