[CoLoCo] I'm confused about how the disk works

[Jim Hutchinson]

Not sure about the swap stuff, but look for trackerd in "top" and see
if that is causing all the IO. That is the issue I have. It's the new
search tool. Well, it's the indexer for the new search tool. From what
I've read it is busy after install until all files are indexed. After
that it only indexes the new stuff. In theory, it should be a lot
quieter after that so maybe just plug it in and let it finish. May or
may not be your issue.

Jim

On 10/25/07, NICK VERBECK <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having what seems to be the same problem on my laptop as well.
> I'll have to check the swap disks and see if its the exact same thing.
>
> You may look into using UUID's in the /etc/fstab for mounting the
> swap. That maybe where the problem is at. I use to have problems with
> my tower where one hard drive wouldn't mount to the same point every
> restart. Converted to using UUID and now I haven't had the problem.
>
> On 10/25/07, Kenneth D. Weinert <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
> > Since upgrading to Gutsy, I've had an issue with my laptop occasionally
> > just getting insanely busy - load goes up to over 20 and the disk access
> > light turns into a green laser.
> >
> > When running  top  I see that Xorg is using almost 50% of the memory,
> > but 80+% of the CPU is waiting.
> >
> > Here's where the problem comes in - in top I see that I have no swap,
> > but looking at fdisk shows a swap partition and if I type
> > swapon /dev/sda5 then suddenly I have a bunch of swap available.
> >
> > In fstab both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5 are commented out.
> >
> > So, my theory is that somehow I'm using all my memory (top shows about
> > 10K available) and the reason things are so busy is because the kernel
> > is paging and paging and paging and paging and ...
> >
> > Can someone point me to some docs on how the disk stuff works on Ubuntu
> > and how I can automatically start swap when the box starts up?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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