Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Le jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 21:45 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Op zondag 20-04-2008 om 20:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Milan Bouchet-Valat: I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why. What is strange is that as soon as I plug the power cable, the sound stop (rather illogical, sin't it?). Before reporting a bug I'd like to know if anyone sees this behavior - just unplug the cable and listen! Just a guess: check your logfiles if anything starts spewing error or warning messages when you are on battery? Nothing there either. I've opened a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/221967 Thanks anyway! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Op zondag 20-04-2008 om 20:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Milan Bouchet-Valat: I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why. What is strange is that as soon as I plug the power cable, the sound stop (rather illogical, sin't it?). Before reporting a bug I'd like to know if anyone sees this behavior - just unplug the cable and listen! Just a guess: check your logfiles if anything starts spewing error or warning messages when you are on battery? -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Hi all! I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why. What is strange is that as soon as I plug the power cable, the sound stop (rather illogical, sin't it?). Before reporting a bug I'd like to know if anyone sees this behavior - just unplug the cable and listen! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Hmm..this is a guess...I have a feeling this is the new indexing search (tracker) feature at work (which I personally hate.. but it's a feature somebody is using). In your task bar you should see a magnifying glass (usually orange on the inside). In right click on it to find prefrences. You see a check box to diable or enable preferences. Does it help when that is disabled ? On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why. What is strange is that as soon as I plug the power cable, the sound stop (rather illogical, sin't it?). Before reporting a bug I'd like to know if anyone sees this behavior - just unplug the cable and listen! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 15:11 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: Hmm..this is a guess...I have a feeling this is the new indexing search (tracker) feature at work (which I personally hate.. but it's a feature somebody is using). In your task bar you should see a magnifying glass (usually orange on the inside). In right click on it to find prefrences. You see a check box to diable or enable preferences. No, I forgot to mention I already checked it occurred even when trackerd was killed. Actually, it is smarter than you would expect and does not bother you when on battery - very nice tool IMHO. ;-) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Milan Bouchet-Valat pisze: Hi all! I noticed that on Hardy, when (and only when) my laptop is on battery, the hard disk makes a sound every second or so, and never stops, even when no application is running but the desktop. atop reports this is pdflush that is writing something to the disk, but I could not identify why. What is strange is that as soon as I plug the power cable, the sound stop (rather illogical, sin't it?). Before reporting a bug I'd like to know if anyone sees this behavior - just unplug the cable and listen! Do you have laptop mode enabled? My guess is that it might be the (in)famous bug 59695. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery
Le dimanche 20 avril 2008 à 23:11 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Do you have laptop mode enabled? My guess is that it might be the (in)famous bug 59695. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 No, it's a fresh install without any tweak. But my guess would rather be that the bug I experience may accidentally solve the cycle count issue (bug 59695) since the heads can never park because of the disk activity. This is juyst an idea but may be worth checking. If no confirmation from others comes, though, I'll simply file a bug and investigate. I thought many people could experience the same, since it should not be related to hardware, but for now it's not really the case! Cheers -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
