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

[Karl Lattimer]

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:04 +0100, George Prowse wrote:
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> Mike Rentell wrote:
> > 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
> > 

The information you've provided isn't crucial info, what is is the
kernel version you're running. 

Currently there is a bug in the 2.6.22 kernel which causes continuous
disc activity because of some strange collision in the generic ide
driver and libata. 

Check your kernel version, this problem is currently effecting gutsy and
some gentoo installs AFAIK. The standard fix is to build a vanilla
kernel with all the generic stuff turned off, roll back to an earlier
kernel, or wait for the distributor to fix it.

Hope this helps.

K,