{"id":1140,"date":"2013-05-20T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:37:35","slug":"top-for-disk-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Top for Disk Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading a PDF, I noticed GKrellM was showing disk activity. I was curious to know what was causing that. Googling “top for disk access” turned up IoTop<\/a>. Conveniently, this is in the Ubuntu repositories. I installed it with Syntaptic and ran it with sudo iotop<\/code>. To make it easier to see what’s continually using the disk, press “a” to switch the display to accumulated access.<\/p>\n

The disk access was from Galleon, the TiVo media server. I didn’t remember having it running and wasn’t using it, so I turned it off with sudo service galleon stop<\/code> and disabled it with sudo update-rc.d -f galleon remove<\/code>, which is the Ubuntu equivalent of chkconfig.<\/p>\n

The disk usage went down, but was still going. Next, I saw activity with rsyslogd. In \/var\/log<\/code>, the most recently written logs were user.log<\/code>, syslog<\/code> and debug<\/code>. Looking at these showed the rotten Lexmark printer driver<\/a> at work. It periodically scans for scanners and fills these logs up with debug messages. The last time I called Lexmark about it, they said they couldn’t do anything about it. That was about a year and a half ago. Looks like it’s time to look into that again. That’s another thing for “the list”.<\/p>\n

There’s another thing accessing disk, and that’s jdb2, which is part of the journaling file system. I found a post about HAL causing this<\/a>. This will also go on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading a PDF, I noticed GKrellM was showing disk activity. I was curious to know what was causing that. Googling “top for disk access” turned up IoTop. Conveniently, this is in the Ubuntu repositories. I installed it with Syntaptic and ran it with sudo iotop. To make it easier to see what’s continually using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}