Disk activity every 1.5 seconds
Bug #109823 reported by
Ken
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When using the computer such as reading email or reading a web page the disk keeps operating about every 1.5 seconds and the led lights. It sounds like someone drumming their fingers on a table. This is when I am not using any program which is generating disk access. It just continues for a long time. When I do something that requires disk access there is the normal activity then the repeated activity resumes. In a quiet room it is very annoying and I am concerned about wearing out my disk prematurely.
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| Greg (pgmer6809) wrote | #1 |
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| Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote | #2 |
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I experience a similar problem with all Debian based distros. Mepis, Lime, Feisty, Gutsy, etc.
Leaving the computer completely alone, doing nothing, the hard disk accesses every 30 secs to 1 min.
(Time varies by distro).
This is on a stock desktop with nothing fancy, no extra installs or services running.
Since suspend and hibernate do not work either this means I have to shutdown when I am not using the computer, and reboot when I want to use it. In practice this means that I cant use Ubuntu, since that is just too inconvenient.
My CENTOS based system does not give this behaviour (although the disk is spinning all the time).
The various suggestions to issue the hdparm -B 255 /dev/diskdevice
a) do not work for my disk.
b) are not a solution to the problem, just a workaround.
The solution is to document what is accessing the disk so often, and allow users to kill it. (or Configure it).
Greg.