[ubuntu-uk] How do I kill jbd2?
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 21:44:23 UTC 2018
On 01/02/18 21:17, Colin Law wrote:
> On 1 February 2018 at 20:58, Mark Lawrence
> <breamoreboy at gmail.com
> <mailto:breamoreboy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Yes that's right, kill it, before my laptop, myself or both go out
> of the window. Why, my disk has been clattering away for the last 4
> hours and it's getting right up my nose? My annoyance is mostly due
> to moving away from Windows so that the anti-virus wasn't constantly
> hammering my disk, instead jbd2 has taken over. I could understand
> it if I thought it had something to do, but it's beyond my extremely
> limited knowledge of ubuntu. Worse is that it will go hours or even
> days without a peep. What gives?
>
> Is there anything noteworthy in /var/log/syslog when this happens? Also
> worth telling us which release of Ubuntu you are using, and which
> flavour if it is not the basic one.
>
> Colin
>
Nothing has been written to /var/log/syslog for the last five minutes,
and I can see gaps between write times of up 10 ten minutes. Ubuntu 17.10.
The disk is still clattering, that's getting towards five hours. I
don't understand why an OS should be hammering a disk that's got 95%
free space when I've plenty of spare ram. I've also read umpteen
reports on this type of issue going back to at least 2011, so it's
hardly a new issue, and something that I've have thought somebody would
have a solution to.
Worse still I can't go back to Windows as it has refused to perform an
update since the end of November, with my latest attempts always failing
with the downloads stuck at 97% :(
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Mark Lawrence
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