On 01/02/18 21:17, Colin Law wrote:
On 1 February 2018 at 20:58, Mark Lawrence
<breamore...@gmail.com
<mailto:breamore...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yes that's right, kill it, before my laptop, myself or both go out
of the window. Why, my disk has been clattering away for the last 4
hours and it's getting right up my nose? My annoyance is mostly due
to moving away from Windows so that the anti-virus wasn't constantly
hammering my disk, instead jbd2 has taken over. I could understand
it if I thought it had something to do, but it's beyond my extremely
limited knowledge of ubuntu. Worse is that it will go hours or even
days without a peep. What gives?
Is there anything noteworthy in /var/log/syslog when this happens? Also
worth telling us which release of Ubuntu you are using, and which
flavour if it is not the basic one.
Colin
Nothing has been written to /var/log/syslog for the last five minutes,
and I can see gaps between write times of up 10 ten minutes. Ubuntu 17.10.
The disk is still clattering, that's getting towards five hours. I
don't understand why an OS should be hammering a disk that's got 95%
free space when I've plenty of spare ram. I've also read umpteen
reports on this type of issue going back to at least 2011, so it's
hardly a new issue, and something that I've have thought somebody would
have a solution to.
Worse still I can't go back to Windows as it has refused to perform an
update since the end of November, with my latest attempts always failing
with the downloads stuck at 97% :(
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Mark Lawrence
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