[opensuse] Unknown disk activity
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity. The knowns: - opensuse 11.1 standard install - no antivirus software - no cron entries that I have put in - Kontact running - no timed entries - Thunderbird - every *minute *checking for emails - Firefox - no website up with any repetitive items Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 schrieb Duaine Hechler:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity. [...]
IIRC, the default ext3 filesystem commit interval is 5 seconds. You might want to use the laptop-mode-tools to change the commit interval and to add the mount option relatime and some more tweaks. Please have a look at least at the main configuration file /etc/laptop-mode/laptop- mode.conf after the installation of the laptop-mode-tools package. HTH Jan -- Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 schrieb Duaine Hechler:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity. [...]
IIRC, the default ext3 filesystem commit interval is 5 seconds.
You might want to use the laptop-mode-tools to change the commit interval and to add the mount option relatime and some more tweaks. Please have a look at least at the main configuration file /etc/laptop-mode/laptop- mode.conf after the installation of the laptop-mode-tools package.
HTH Jan
Except running reiserfs. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 16:07:19 Duaine Hechler wrote:
Except running reiserfs.
Which is meant to store stuff on the hard disk just as any other file system :) There can be 2 things: 1) HAL is checking devices, like: hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdb (every 2 sec) where /dev/sdb is DVD 2) dirty cache is flushed to hard disk: pdflush -- Regards Rajko, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 13:43, Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net> wrote:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity.
The knowns:
- opensuse 11.1 standard install - no antivirus software - no cron entries that I have put in - Kontact running - no timed entries - Thunderbird - every *minute *checking for emails - Firefox - no website up with any repetitive items
In addition to the comments from Jan... are you running KDE4 - is Nepomuk running and doing it's little indexing activities? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
C wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 13:43, Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net> wrote:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity.
The knowns:
- opensuse 11.1 standard install - no antivirus software - no cron entries that I have put in - Kontact running - no timed entries - Thunderbird - every *minute *checking for emails - Firefox - no website up with any repetitive items
In addition to the comments from Jan... are you running KDE4 - is Nepomuk running and doing it's little indexing activities?
C.
Still running KDE 3.5 and no Nepomuk nor any other indexing running. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday March 16 2010, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity.
Time to get quieter disks. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:13:20 Duaine Hechler wrote:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity.
The knowns:
- opensuse 11.1 standard install - no antivirus software - no cron entries that I have put in - Kontact running - no timed entries - Thunderbird - every *minute *checking for emails - Firefox - no website up with any repetitive items
Thanks, Duaine
iotop is your friend. It is like top but shows process i/o. You'll quickly see which process is accessing the disk. If it is not installed, zypper in iotop (as root) should find it. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rodney Baker wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:13:20 Duaine Hechler wrote:
I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity.
The knowns:
- opensuse 11.1 standard install - no antivirus software - no cron entries that I have put in - Kontact running - no timed entries - Thunderbird - every *minute *checking for emails - Firefox - no website up with any repetitive items
Thanks, Duaine
iotop is your friend. It is like top but shows process i/o. You'll quickly see which process is accessing the disk.
If it is not installed, zypper in iotop (as root) should find it.
If found out from iotop that is coming from Postgresql stats collector process. Why and how turned on ? How to turn off ? Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net> [03-16-10 21:35]:
If found out from iotop that is coming from Postgresql stats collector process.
Why and how turned on ? How to turn off ?
Duaine
-- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years
as <root> rcpostgress stop killall postgress I don't use Postgress, rather mysql, and do not know if it needs to be capitalized. Are you sure that you don't use it? It is *not* installed by default, rather mysql or not at all.... -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Duaine Hechler <dahechler@att.net> [03-16-10 21:35]:
If found out from iotop that is coming from Postgresql stats collector process.
Why and how turned on ? How to turn off ?
Duaine
-- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years
as <root> rcpostgress stop killall postgress
I don't use Postgress, rather mysql, and do not know if it needs to be capitalized.
Are you sure that you don't use it? It is *not* installed by default, rather mysql or not at all....
I use Quasar Accounting by linuxcanada.com - and it uses Postgres Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
iotop is your friend. It is like top but shows process i/o. You'll quickly see which process is accessing the disk. If it is not installed, zypper in iotop (as root) should find it. If found out from iotop that is coming from Postgresql stats collector process. Why and how turned on ? How to turn off ?
service postgresql off chkconfig postgresql off Why is it turned on? [and I doubt the I/O load of an idle PostgreSQL service amounts to anything at all] -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (8)
-
Adam Tauno Williams -
C -
Duaine Hechler -
Jan Ritzerfeld -
Patrick Shanahan -
Rajko M. -
Randall R Schulz -
Rodney Baker