Hard Drive working for a long time while system is idle

M$ISBS · 04-03-2011, 12:43 PM

My hard drive all of a sudden starts to read and write all on its own for around 15 seconds at a time while at idle or while I am just browsing the net.

At first I thought it was from cron running but I have that disabled.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Xubuntu and xfce

MS3FGX · 04-03-2011, 01:01 PM

Nothing interesting in the system logs during this period? Have you tried using lsof to list files being accessed while the drive is running?

M$ISBS · 04-03-2011, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MS3FGX

Nothing interesting in the system logs during this period? Have you tried using lsof to list files being accessed while the drive is running?

I have not looked at the logs, will do right now. Next time it happens I will try lsof, didnt know about that. Thanks.

M$ISBS · 04-06-2011, 07:52 PM

When I do lsof, a whole bunch of items show up and I am not sure what they are. This is without the hard drive clacking away. I checked the syslog and I found these lines:

cpu0: core temp/speed normal
cpu0: cpu core temp above threshhold cpu clock throttled

They go on about 20 times.