Re: [ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread norman
< snip > When the activity started, something like 'mythbackend' flashed up and then disappeared, whilst the activity continued. I closed mythtv backend and the activity stopped. So, where the activity originated from seems to be settled now I need to find the reason for this. There must be some s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread norman
< snip > > I would open a terminal and run "top" in that terminal. You'll get > something that looks a bit like this:- > > http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/999/ > > Followed by this header:- > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > > Then a list of processes that a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread Kris Marsh
On 10/18/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi kris, > > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:42 +0100, Kris Marsh wrote: > > >From here, it's likely to be whatever is taking up 70-100% CPU usage. > > If it's trackerd or beagle-daemon, then you have two choices: kill / > > uninstall it, or be patient.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi kris, On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:42 +0100, Kris Marsh wrote: > >From here, it's likely to be whatever is taking up 70-100% CPU usage. > If it's trackerd or beagle-daemon, then you have two choices: kill / > uninstall it, or be patient. Or tune it :) If indeed it is tracker, then you can change

Re: [ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Norman, On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:18 +0100, norman wrote: > For some unknown reason my hard drive becomes very active for about 5 > minutes and then stops. This activity is repeated at half hourly > intervals. I would like to find out what is causing this but do not know > how to go about it. Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread Kris Marsh
On 10/18/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some unknown reason my hard drive becomes very active for about 5 > minutes and then stops. This activity is repeated at half hourly > intervals. I would like to find out what is causing this but do not know > how to go about it. The activity sta

[ubuntu-uk] odd hd activity

2007-10-18 Thread norman
For some unknown reason my hard drive becomes very active for about 5 minutes and then stops. This activity is repeated at half hourly intervals. I would like to find out what is causing this but do not know how to go about it. The activity started only a day or two ago. Please, could some wise per