Does any of you with this problem use the wifi-driver ath5k? I don't know why, but if I stop wifi (by disable wifi in network-manager, by switching off the wifi-card in my netbook, or by running "modprobe -r ath5k) the harddisk led stop lighting up every 5 to 15 seconds.
I ran iotop in 5 minutes with wifi disabled, and this is the output: 14:23:50 370 be/3 root 0.00 B 8.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:23:51 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 4.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:23:51 3005 be/4 root 0.00 B 4.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:24:25 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 16.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:24:27 3005 be/4 root 0.00 B 8.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq Then I turned on wifi and ran iotop again i 5 minutes: 14:30:16 370 be/3 root 0.00 B 28.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:30:16 3007 be/4 syslog 0.00 B 4.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % rsyslogd -c4 14:30:17 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 28.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:30:17 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 4.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:30:26 3007 be/4 syslog 0.00 B 12.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % rsyslogd -c4 14:30:32 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 32.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:30:40 370 be/3 root 0.00 B 56.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:30:45 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 40.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:30:46 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 8.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:30:56 3007 be/4 syslog 0.00 B 20.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % rsyslogd -c4 14:30:57 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 12.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:30:58 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 16.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:31:56 3007 be/4 syslog 0.00 B 28.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % rsyslogd -c4 14:31:57 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 20.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:32:00 370 be/3 root 0.00 B 60.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:32:01 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 44.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:32:03 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 24.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:32:54 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 88.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:32:54 1313 be/4 thomas 0.00 B 12.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % gconfd-2 14:32:55 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 28.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:32:58 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 116.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:32:59 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 32.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:33:21 370 be/3 root 0.00 B 64.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:35:01 370 be/3 root 0.00 B 68.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:35:02 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 36.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq 14:35:07 623 be/3 root 0.00 B 120.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kjournald2] 14:35:08 3043 be/4 root 0.00 B 40.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/bin/iotop -n 300 -obat -qqq I don't know if this is relevant. There could be many reasons why kjournald2 access the disk more often when wifi is on, but it looks like there is a connection... -- kjournald2 writes to disk about every 10 seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
