Ravi S. Kumar wrote: > , the device is right, it used to be /dev/hda, but now its /dev/sda > (feisty default setting for serial ATA).
This renaming is because of the PATA drivers in the linux kernel (2.6.20+ ?) > > Can anyone suggest me something from system tool to check which process > is currently accessing HDD IO. You could try the htop/top tool to see which process is taking up the CPU. > > (*One more thing I noticed, Beagle takes a lot time indexing the > harddisk full of data, like my drive with songs, texts, and lots PDFs. > And during indexing such, it even makes the situation worst, but it is > not following the rule to index when the system is idle. **is this a > bug.) Subsequent indexing of files will be a lot faster if you have inotify compiled into the kernel. This is compiled in as part of the stock kernel in Ubuntu. > so can someone let me know beagle alternative, I read once tat on > someones blog, an alternative written in C/C++, which is much easier on > system, and same as beagle. > Try tracker (http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/). Much lighter and faster. And yes it is in C. -- Prashanth Mohan http://prashblog.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
