busy disk

[thufir]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:45:45 -0500, Preston Hagar wrote:


> You might want to install iotop:
> 
> sudo apt-get install iotop
> 
> Then next time you see a 100% busy or disk access seems to be high, run
> 
> sudo iotop


I'm almost positive it's a bug:

updatedb.mlocate uses 100% of the hdd IO. The OS is completely unusable.


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mlocate/+bug/1190696


although it only happened for a few minutes.  Aside from being annoying, 
that level of read/write on a sustained basis doesn't sound good for hard 
drives.



-Thufir