On Friday 17 April 2009 8:40:13 am Ioannis Nousias wrote: > Hello all, > > I just tried out the Kubuntu 9.04 RC1 LiveCD on my desktop. After a > couple of minutes it starts accessing the hard drives as well as the CD > itself, causing an unresponsive system. This is while the system is idle > otherwise. > > At first I thought it was some kind of indexing service. What indexing > service does Kubuntu use? The ones I know, such as tracker and beagle, > where not running. I could see a number of kio_file working non stop. > Tried to kill them one by one, but appeared immediately back on. There > must be a service that invokes them. > > Then I noticed something even weirder. The drives were not even mounted! > (?) Is it performing some kind of disk checks? It seems, whatever it was > doing, it was doing it to any storage attached to the system, from the > internal drives, to external usb storage as well as the LiveCD itself > (which is what probably caused the sluggishness)
How much RAM do you have? Does the hard drive already have a swap partition on it? If so, it's probably swapping. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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