[HLUG] Excess hard drive activity

[Chris Owens]

  Hi Julian

     Many thanks for this. I have no experience of SSH but have found a 
couple of good tutorials and can see that the top command might well 
reveal useful data. It looks to be an interesting project once I have 
set up another machine, I'll have a go. Is the network best wired or 
wireless or doesn't it matter? The only new feature is that it looks as 
though the swap partition becomes fully utilised once the process gets 
going and it does feel like some sort of rogue process as you say or 
some sort of 'chaotic housekeeping' you can tell, the words of a layman!!.

     Given its intermittent nature can anything useful be gained from 
any of the log files if I note the time the excess activity starts up, 
if so which one would be best to look at?

     Sorry - I got a bit confused, the problem started after installing 
Karmic (not Meerkat) on a clean partition (not upgrading the existing 
jaunty) but thanks for the tip re lts versions - I must remember that.

     Thanks again for your suggestions and interest

Chris


On 04/12/10 13:23, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> Not an easy one to work out.
>
> I just wonder if you may be using a badly configured display driver ?
>
> It does sound an odd fault but I think the hdd spinning a lot is down to a
> rogue process taking a lot of the cpu.
>
> If you have another pc perhaps you could try sshing to the main pc and
> running top to see what is using the cpu so much
>
> The other thing is you say you were trying to upgrade from jaunty to
> maverick but that would have to be a multiple stage upgrade you have to
> upgrade the non lts versions sequentially ie jaunty to karmic to lucid to
> maverick. You can uphrade lts releases from one to the next in one go ie
> hardy to lucid
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Julian
> On 1 Dec 2010 11:56, "Chris Owens"<cowens at clara.co.uk>  wrote:
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