[TriLUG] help: Fedora constantly hitting disk

[Tim Jowers]

pkill rklogd

Looks like the USB message is overloading the log. This could destroy a disk
over time. Bad. Broken with an Fedora8 update. Also bad. I'll try to move to
Fedora9 and see if it is fixed.

Tim



On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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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