Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 11:25 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. > > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is > happening. > Google does not seem to be too friendly. > > Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. Hard to say without details. On a normal GNOME setup tracker starts indexing after a login, but it should stop if the system isn't idle and it would probably also show up in top too as it tends to use a bit of cpu. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On 04/24/2016 05:36 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > Not using swap or browser. > Try iotop. -- Udyant Wig Software projects: https://bitbucket.org/udyant Poetry: http://www.writing.com/main/portfolio/view/frosthrone
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On 04/22/2016 01:17 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 11:25:15 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is happening. Google does not seem to be too friendly. Not a lot to go on there. (Turn off the computer, says the cynic.) What were you running before? Wheezy? My laptop disk thrashes for two or three minutes at bootup. This is an inconvenience for typing my password (it can take <= 8 seconds for the prompt which turns off password reflection). X is slow to start the first time (up to a minute). Very unlike wheezy's behaviour. If it carries on thrashing, is it swapping?$ top Is your browser running? Cheers, David. Not using swap or browser. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set www.Molecular-Modeling.net Stochastic and multivariate (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On 22/04/16 16:25, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is happening. > Google does not seem to be too friendly. > > Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. sudo apt-get install iotop sudo iotop -o (will show applications doing write), have you checked your log files? is something logging like crazy? Kind Regards, Mike signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:25:15AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. > > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is > happening. Google does not seem to be too friendly. > > Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. There's a tool, iotop, in the same-named package which lists I/O usage of processes. Perhaps this can give some hints. Regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlcadV4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kac0wCfcsU8aow4EHQV26RrQx1Eviy8 dfoAl1K8ylx4dW2jD2oBtrR8TBXOt1c= =p8EX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 11:25:15 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. > > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is > happening. Google does not seem to be too friendly. Not a lot to go on there. (Turn off the computer, says the cynic.) What were you running before? Wheezy? My laptop disk thrashes for two or three minutes at bootup. This is an inconvenience for typing my password (it can take <= 8 seconds for the prompt which turns off password reflection). X is slow to start the first time (up to a minute). Very unlike wheezy's behaviour. If it carries on thrashing, is it swapping?$ top Is your browser running? Cheers, David.
Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
On 04/22/2016 10:25 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is happening. Google does not seem to be too friendly. Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Try shutting down X (too many variables to guess how to tell you to do that without more info) and see if the thrashing stops; if it does, maybe start X with a different windowing environment. That should help track down the issue somewhat. -- Kent West <*)))>< http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/
Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing
I have installed Debian v-8.4.0. My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is happening. Google does not seem to be too friendly. Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
