[TriLUG] help: Fedora constantly hitting disk

[Robert Dale]

1, You could try PowerTOP[1] to see what's waking up and doing stuff
2, GNOME has daemon called magicdev that probes your CDROM.  This
could blink your HD light and make it look like there's activity.

[1] http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/


-- 
Robert Dale

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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>> 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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