ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 avahi-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:offclamd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off freshclam 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lisa 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off wltool 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@localhost ~]# The list I've left above are services you can disable/remove. This is what I would do: chkconfig avahi-daemon off urpme lisa urpme portmap chkconfig clamd off chkconfig freshclam off chkconfig netfs off chkconfig wltool off lisa is like a network neighbourhood. I don't know anyone who uses it, so just remove it completely with the command I listed. When you remove portmap as well, it will ask to remove nfs-utils. Say yes, as this will remove the nfslock service as well. These are required for nfs shares, which you most likely won't be using, as hardly anyone does. avahi-daemon is for zeroconf requests across the network. You won't be using this, so it can be disabled. clamd/freshclam are the anti-virus. You won't really need this, so it will free up some memory. netfs is another nfs service, unfortunately you cannot remove it, so you'll have to just disable it. wltool is about kernel user-space power management stuff, which you don't need either. I never had it in previous versions, and I never used it in Mandriva on my laptops and never had problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 as root type drakxservices in a terminal and stop all these acpi acpid atd avahi-daemon clamd crond dm freshclam jexec never came accros jexec... lisa netfs nfslock ntpd partmon wltool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 I'd not recommend stopping atd and crond as these can be important for scheduled system jobs. Also acpi and acpid I'd be inclined to leave these running as well as these shouldn't be causing you any problems with disk access. I also never came across jexec, but would be nice to know what package it comes with. Do this: rpm -qf /etc/init.d/jexec and it will tell us which package it belongs to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 I agree important, so they should be restarted at later date, but to identify what is causing the activity, crond and at are quite likely to be culprits janusz, I posted a list of what I would stop during the investigation assuming you have just a normal desktop. And I went for the overkill. But once sorted you will have to think about which services you really need also you need to stop opera and any other application then start them 1 by 1 if HD activity stoped wwasher? are you using webwasher? Is there a linux version? the gam_server monitor file size change AFAIK that could be the culprit you may want to do as root killall gam_server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 You're right, no harm disabling for now, but I'd turn these back on for sure :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janusz Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 (edited) ============================================================ UPDATE: After starting Freespire Linux and paying close attention to the HD I found that it also had some kind of activity every 3-4 seconds (quite; not very loud) but not as pronounced as M-L. Could this just be normal for all distros? ============================================================= Thanks for all the suggestions. I appreciate it! Here's what I have done so far: 1. jexec is described in MCC, Services, Info as: Supports direct execution of binary formats. rpm -qf /etc/init.d/jexec jre-1.6.0.01-fcs looks like Sun Java. I have disabled jexec in MCC, Services but will NOT restart even on reboot. **Question: How can jexec be restarted? 2. Disabled services, etc. as described. Drive activity remains. Also, disabled crond, etc. No change. 3. gam_services "killed" - No change. 4a. How do I "stop/start" applications (Opera, etc.)? If they are not active they do not show in processes. 5. Webwasher is Linux version. Recommended by friend since I had used Webwasher long ago in windows prior to my using Proxomitron. It is passive ad filter somewhat like Proxomitron. I do not have any of its features enabled yet; also browser proxy not configured. This is because I plan to spend some time reviewing and configuring the filters. I "killed" wwasher and it made no difference in drive activity. 6. Drive led blinks during drive activity when in Mandriva Linux. This does not happen in Freespire Linux. In any case, I did Western Digital diagnostics on the drive one more time. All okay. The drive activity is still about every 4-5 seconds with each period of activity being brief (2 seconds) with some periods longer (3-4 seconds). It is as though after several cycles it reoganizes, resets, or something. Since I installed M-L recently I have added two programs: Opera and Webwasher. I do not recall if the drive activity was present when I first installed; I did not notice it. When I connect to the internet (DSL) (MCC, Monitor Connections) there is send/receive activity about every 3-4 seconds. When disconnected, could this be some kind of internall generated activity still be going on regardless of no internet connection? j Edited April 22, 2007 by janusz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Could this just be normal for all distros? I'm inclined to think so, at least with kde and probably gnome as well. I believe most window managers and DEs have to update the status of the filesystem every few seconds to keep current. I know I sometimes see a lag in kde when using konqueror and doing a lot of file operations at the command line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janusz Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Ummmmm. Perhaps I've been chasing a ghost . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reanes Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 I've noticed that the HAL daemon causes disk activity every 2 or 3 seconds, but only if the disk is a scsi disk. Also, the KDE media manager (in KDE components) causes disk activity as well. I have two Mandriva systems. The one without scsi does not have disk activity, even with HAL and KDE media manager running. The one with a scsi disk constantly has disk activity unless I stop the KDE Media Manger and stop the HAL daemon. Then the disk activity stops. So it appears that the disk activity is connected to scsi disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crito Posted April 27, 2008 Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 It shouldn't be this hard to figure out what's accessing the drive every few seconds. If I wanted to be left completely in the dark about what's going on with my system I'd be using Vista. Surely there's SOME utility or command that will give me the info I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crito Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Something seems to be polling the DVD drive periodically. I guess it's whatever automounts disks. Which would explain why you can't find any open files associated with the activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 That would be haldaemon, then… Yves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 It shouldn't be this hard to figure out what's accessing the drive every few seconds. If I wanted to be left completely in the dark about what's going on with my system I'd be using Vista. Surely there's SOME utility or command that will give me the info I want. PowerTop is such a program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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