Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-18 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 15:04, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > > since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > in some cases. > > It might also be worth checking the health of your hard disk with "smartctl -A /dev/sd". Look out for "Reallocated Event Count", "Current Pending

Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-17 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op ma 17 dec. 2018 16:33 schreef mpan > since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > > in some cases. > > > > Are there any invisible background threads running? How can I find out > > about those? Running top, cpu use should be only about 30%, so it should > > wait

Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-17 Thread mpan
> since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > in some cases. > > Are there any invisible background threads running? How can I find out > about those? Running top, cpu use should be only about 30%, so it should > wait for tasks to be executed, instead. iotop

Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-17 Thread Temlin Olivér via arch-general
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 16:04, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > > since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > in some cases. > > Are there any invisible background threads running? How can I find out > about those? Running top, cpu use should be only about 30%, so it should

[arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-17 Thread Peter Nabbefeld
Hello, since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow in some cases. Are there any invisible background threads running? How can I find out about those? Running top, cpu use should be only about 30%, so it should wait for tasks to be executed, instead. Kind