Mark - here's a possible solution https://askubuntu.com/questions/306626/jbd2-constantly-writing-to-disk
Cheers -- Tony Scott https://tonyscott.org.uk On 1 February 2018 at 21:44, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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% :( > > > -- > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask > what you can do for our language. > > Mark Lawrence > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
