-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Phill Coxon wrote: > Occassionally on my new server (Mandrake 2006) something starts a *lot* > of disk activity causing the desktop to get very sluggish for 5 minutes > or so. Very likely some database indexing files on the drive. > > CPU load remains very low - it's just the disk being thrashed that > causes everything else to slow down significantly. Loading Firefox will > take 45 seconds instead of 3-5 seconds for example. > > Two questions: > > 1) Is there any simple way of determining which process is associated > with significant disk activity? > > 2) What solutions are available for reducing desktop sluggishness > because some database or other is reindexing? Would moving key data > directories (/home) to a separate drive away from application binaries > help?
There have been a number of issues with 2006 in this area. It seems that biggest culprits are logrotates when the acip daemon is running, and the second is the kat indexing facility in KDE. So if you don't use acip logging you can prevent this part of the problem by deleteing /etc/logrotate.d/acip. The second problem I solved by uninstalling kat and libkat. So far I haven't observed the behaviour again. Cheers John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDaXFG8a+rYf8pSJ4RAj7SAKCMh8ny8EyAkRczv5QFQJflIZyEKQCfXoY9 Y8oI+vtq/0ecN6OLs6EUEUM= =wYZT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
