[14.04] High/disruptive disk usage after dist-upgrade today

[Nils Kassube]

Bernard Gray wrote:
> I'm having issues immediately after today's dist-upgrade with high
> disk usage whenever I attempt to do... well, pretty much any
> operation. My machine is a current gen Core i7, 16GB RAM (5GB used),
> 16GB swap (0 used), and the disk is a 7200rpm spindle drive.

> I've been running on the 14.04 repo for several months now. I
> dist-upgrade approximately daily, I do it in the safest environment I
> can create (I am also a long term debian sid user)
>  * log out of KDE,
>  * stop KDM,
>  * init 3 just to be sure
>  * dist-upgrade in the tty

That's a bit strange. a) KDM should be replaced by lightdm. b) What's 
init 3 good for?

Anyway - what does "top -i" show as processes with high CPU usage? Maybe 
the desktop search is indexing your entire disk?


Nils