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 started only a day or two ago. Please, > could some wise person advise me on what to try? > > Norman > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
Hi Norman, I suspect it's Tracker / Beagle or something similar. Check the system monitor by clicking the menu System->Administration->System Monitor, and sort the columns by CPU. >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. Basically, it's doing a periodic check through your filesystem for new files. It'll keep on going until it parses through all of your files. Judging by the characteristics you described, I suspect that it's probably trackerd, as I think periodically parses files in chunks, and then stops after a hundred or so. Both Tracker and Beagle are search utilities, by the way - they create indexes of your hard drive such that you can find files very quickly. Hope that helps a bit, and if it's not trackerd/beagle-daemon then feel free to paste the name of the executable from top, and we'll try and help :-) Kris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
