Mandriva 2006

varun_saa · 11-12-2005, 10:45 PM

Hello,

Just installed Mandriva 2006.

I have been noticing that for some reason
all of a sudden the system shows high
hard disk activity. The HDD red light just
keeps glowing.

The system gets hangy.
I have to reboot.

How to figure out what causes this to happen
again and again.

Thanks in advance

Varun

Keruskerfuerst · 11-13-2005, 01:48 AM

Switch to console and enter "top".
This shows all running processes.

reddazz · 11-13-2005, 02:03 AM

If you have installed kat, this could be the cause of your problems so uninstall it.

zamri · 11-13-2005, 10:20 AM

check with ps aux and see whether there is updatedb..

wpg9210 · 03-03-2006, 12:36 PM

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? The same thing happens on my system.

reddazz · 03-03-2006, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wpg9210

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? The same thing happens on my system.

Uninstall kat and libkat.

wpg9210 · 03-03-2006, 02:24 PM

Did that, The HDD keeps running even in runlevel 3.

bobbelfield · 03-03-2006, 03:57 PM

By the way Kat is an indexing service that runs in the background and when done makes finding files easier. I hav'nt let it run out but it uses a set amount of your resources and you can change that. It comes up in the tray as a cat icon-right click on that.

Michael_aust · 03-03-2006, 05:43 PM

yeh i havr this once, each time i install either mandriva or pclinux os, it only happens the ocne thouhg, i dotn know if its kat as i say it happens on pclinuxos, it totaly kilsl the system though, took me quatre of an hour to get to kdm.

reddazz · 03-04-2006, 01:55 AM

If you are sure its not kat, then run "top" and monitor which apps are using up the most ram. There could be an app using a lot of ram resulting in lots of activity in your swap file.

J.K · 03-07-2006, 12:31 AM

Open Ksysguard and click on the process table tab. You will quickly see what the offending program is. Don't be surprised if it is Lisa. I had this problem on one of my computers and it slowly brings the computer to a standstill.

bobbelfield · 03-07-2006, 03:24 AM

That's if you can work out what Ksysguard is supposed to be doing . I havn't made sense of it in 2 years trying

wpg9210 · 03-07-2006, 10:15 AM

I couldn't track down the problem, however when I disabled the SATA controller module it stopped (naturally). I think it had something to do with the APIC for my motherboard (Asus p5gd2) I installed Fedora 4 with noapic and its working great now.