Kubuntu 9.04RC1 LiveCD excessive hard drive activity, whilst idle

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Friday 17 April 2009 8:40:13 am Ioannis Nousias wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just tried out the Kubuntu 9.04 RC1 LiveCD on my desktop. After a 
> couple of minutes it starts accessing the hard drives as well as the CD 
> itself, causing an unresponsive system. This is while the system is idle 
> otherwise.
> 
> At first I thought it was some kind of indexing service. What indexing 
> service does Kubuntu use? The ones I know, such as tracker and beagle, 
> where not running. I could see a number of kio_file working non stop. 
> Tried to kill them one by one, but appeared immediately back on. There 
> must be a service that invokes them.
> 
> Then I noticed something even weirder. The drives were not even mounted! 
> (?) Is it performing some kind of disk checks? It seems, whatever it was 
> doing, it was doing it to any storage attached to the system, from the 
> internal drives, to external usb storage as well as the LiveCD itself 
> (which is what probably caused the sluggishness)

How much RAM do you have?  Does the hard drive already have a swap partition 
on it?  If so, it's probably swapping.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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