When ever I start up Ubuntu this program called bkl-orbiter
starts. After a while it seems to call up bkl-investigato
I was wondering what was making my hard drive grind, so I
started top and discovered these two programs.
After I kill bkl-orbiter, bkl-investigato goes away too.
And my hard drive stops grinding.
Does anyone know anything about these programs ?
What are they go for ?
How can I get rid of them permanently ?

"/usr/bin/bkl-orbiter".
Never heard about it, but the text says : Always running.
(And my 10 Ubuntu installs are on silent disks, so I haven't noticed 'bkl-orbiter'.)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?su...ds=bkl-orbiter
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/bickley-daemons

"Bickley metadata system are made by 2 daemons: bkl-orbiter and bkl-investigator.
Bkl-orbiter is always running and keeps track of various sources, watching for files
on the sources that need to be indexed. When it has found something that needs
extracting, the bkl-investigator is started and scans the file for metadata which
it then sends to the orbiter. The orbiter puts this metadata into the database."

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Never heard of it either. Checked my repos (synaptic is handy for that) and there it is.

I am running Debian testing and it is not installed here or on my Squeeze (Debian stable) or my Debian Sid (Debian unstable). They do not seem to miss it.

If I were you I would boot to a live CD and run a fsck on your system. Your noises may be caused by some problem. If that comes up clean I would probably just remove the buggers and forget it as some silly "improvement" that Ubuntu has added.