Sometimes the harddrive runs wild. I have no ability to do anything for what is forever. I always do the same: I switch it off and restart. Quite annoying. What is it and how do I disable it?
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Re: one process killing computer
Which filesystem are you using?
There are a couple of "indexing" packages that can work your hard drive pretty hard sometimes. These are "strigi" and "nepomuk":
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3578
I've personally had problems with strigi-daemon in the past, running my CPU up to 100% (both cores) -- so I don't use it and don't trust it. If you don't have the need for these indexing services, just go to "service manager" and disable them. -
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Don't have Strigi running (I don't want it either), but Nepomuk was. Just disabled it. When I want to find something, I do it 'the old fashioned' way with either the locate or find command. find is slower, and locate requires that the database be updated (but how hard is it to run sudo updatedb before hand?).Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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Re: one process killing computer
I will disable strigi then. I guess looking at /etc/cron is the place to remove these unwanted self-starting programs, right? And another thing: How to put the priority to 1% in stead of 100%? There must somewhere to adjust this, so that no thread takes over the hole computer.Comment
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Re: one process killing computer
"nice" is used to adjust the priorities of running processes:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=140
Be careful ...
A more productive approach, if you have an unneeded process running and using resources, is just to kill that process.
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl_kill.htm
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