Constant disk access with hardy

[Mike Rosset]

Try killing all instances of firefox 3. if that fixes the problem use
firefox 2 . or check the bugs with firefox 3 . there is a know issue
with it and hard disk thrashing.
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Mike Rosset <mrosset at uarch.org>


On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:27 -0400, R. Wood wrote:
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> Allegedly, on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0400, Andy Boersma stated:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Since I installed 8.04 my disk light is flashing consistently
> > 
> > I stopped all indexing etc, but it is still flashing.
> > 
> > Anybody noticed the same and found out what it is??
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Andy
> 
> Run this at a command-line:
>   top
> 
> Whatever is hogging the CPU should be revealed.
> 
> HTH,
> Raymond
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