On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 08:21 +1200, Solor Vox wrote: > Hi Phill, > > You can use ionice -c 3 (idle) to reduce load of command, and with -p > of an existing pid. However, I'd recommend that you check your dmesg > / logs for drive errors. Sounds like it might be a drive going bad. > If your drive supports SMART, check using the smart tools. Finally, > if all that checks out, run an fsck from a livecd on your unmounted > filesystem to make sure there are no errors there.
Thanks for the reply. Smarttools is coming back clear. I think I'll do the install to Kubuntu 10.4 and see if the problem persists after that. It may also be a swap issue - I run a lot of applications in 3.5Gb of Mem although swap doesn't seem to be used too much from what I see. When I upgrade to 64bit with the new install I'll get use of the full 4Gb which won't hurt either.
