My hardrive all of a suddon is going crazy?
 

I was using linux and all of a suddon my hardrive started going crazy? How may I stop this?

Using slackware, KDE.

Its really slow I would write more but to slow ...

How do you mean "Going Crazy"?

Lots of reads / writes or what? Please describe the symptoms, and what exactly you were doing at the time.

--Ian

If your hard drive just "goes crazy" then it's most likely a hardware problem.

If your hard drive performance is really shite, install hdparm, which is used for tuning hard disks, and check out the man or info pages.

One KDE app apeared to be loading something, I closed it and the hardrive stoped going crazy(Lots of reads/writes). Must be some kind of bug

Does the problem happen if you load it again? What was the application?

Konqueror(version 3.3.2) was the application. This happened before and I solved it the same way. I left a konqueror window open to a folder and on other desktop a program was doing File I/O to files in that folder. It was only doing writing to files, renameing files(this was somewhat user controled so there would be no way for this program to this file I/O that will drive the hardrive crazy). Thats it. No reading or deleting.

Now I'm just as confused as you are.

Return to the command line, the way the good lord intended it to be ;)

hd - crazy
 

open a terminal and enter command

top

You will see a list of processes running. This may help you decipher what's going on. To stop the process, use the ID number and type into terminal

kill <processID>

good luck

How may I scroll through the list?

Try "top | more".

Gnumore
 

There's a "more" command in Linux? I thought it was "less".

more is less, less is more