[Klug-general] Lots of disk activity slowing me down

[Michael Miller]

Mike,
At a guess, I suspect the linux "auto defrag" is starting up.
>From memory, it runs at startup.
This happened to me a lot on Mandriva 2005.
Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Rentell" <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>
To: "Kent Linux User Group" <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: [Klug-general] Lots of disk activity slowing me down


> Good day all,
> 
> I run Mandriva2007 Free on an aging desktop running an AMD Athlon t 
> 1.3Ghz into 1.5 Gb of RAM. I've had this setup for some time, just 
> updating the odd bits and keeping up-to-date with Mandriva.
> 
> Recently I've noticed that shortly after startup and a few minutes using 
> SeaMonkey and Konqueror everything slows down dramatically and there is 
> continuous disk activity for about ten minutes.
> 
> I have no idea what is going on as I don't recall changing anything 
> other than updating to M2007Free. If anyone has any advice, that'd be 
> most welcome.
> 
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
> 
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