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Re: Hard disk running...and running...and running...and...

  • Subject: Re: Hard disk running...and running...and running...and...
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:42:15 +0000
  • Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [mst] on Monday 02 January 2006 07:25 \__

> On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:33:37 GMT Hachiroku <Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Since I filled my primary drive, my hard drive has been running and
>> running, hosing the system. Even simple tasks take foreveer.
> 
> When you say 'running', what does that mean? That the drive
> light is constantly flickering?
> 
>> A glimpse at my memory stats says 512M or ram is used 95%...from Boot!
>> Swap space is 75% used...from Boot! WTF is going on here?
> 
> As a rule, that's how Linux uses memory. But it does sound
> just a tad suspicious.
> 
> What does 'top' and 'df -h' reveal? Have you run fsck from a
> boot CD to check the partition(s)?   Which version of SUSE are
> you running? What are you hardware specs?

I  think the fact that the OP "filled the primary drive" provides a  clue.
When I run low on space (sometimes accidentally reaching 0), the system is
as  slow as hell and I just hope to be able to open a shell (or Konqueror)
to  quickly delete something from the system that's 'choking'. If I reboot
with  0  bytes available, I might be forced to clear some space  from  the
non-graphical command-line.

Roy

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