[TriLUG] help: Fedora constantly hitting disk

Tim Jowers timjowers at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 21:50:02 EDT 2008


It looks like I have two separate problems. One of the continuous USB log
msg and one to do with Gnome. If I do not login, then the problem does not
occur. Someone on the net said it was the Gnome search tool but I haven't
found where to configure this little bugger and it does not show up with a
clear name in top.

Tim

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe this will help:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446845
>
> --
> Robert Dale
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmmm..."unable to enumerate USB device on port 10"logged constantly in
> > /var/log/messages. How to turn that off? I guess a fix broke something.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> how would you troubleshoot this? I see the disk light bliinking on and
> off
> >> constantly. 4-5 times per second.
> >>
> >> Happening on two machines with Fedora 8 and latest updates. On one it
> >> seemed to not happen when I went into kde instead of gnome but I'm not
> at
> >> that machine now.
> >>
> >> Doing a top and adding the nFault and nDirty did not help. I just cannot
> >> see what process (or driver?) is constantly hitting the disk.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any insights!
> >> Tim Jowers
> >>
> >>
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