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

[Mike Rentell]

Margot wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
> It would help if we knew what the activity was - you could try running 
> top in a terminal, or use ksysguard if you prefer a GUI.
> 
> The only thing I've had with 2007 that seems in any way similar is if 
> I've left Firefox running for too long - more than about 3 days - 
> closing it down & then immediately reopening it seems to be the cure.
> 
> And I know that others had problems a while back with a program called 
> Kat, but I think that was on Mandriva 2006 - I don't use it, so I 
> uninstalled it which is maybe why I don't have the problem, but if you 
> have Kat installed you could try getting rid of it unless you really 
> want it!
> 
Ah, under top I can see beagled and beagled-helper popping up and taking 
up some cycles and then disappearing again. This is happening over and 
over again and coincides with the disk light coming on.
Isn't beagle something new in Mandriva2007F - a bit like the kat earlier?
If it isn't really necessary could someone suggest (in simple steps for 
this bear of little brain) how to disable it permanently.
MikeR