Hi all,
I am running deb/unstable with kde 3.3.1 gui on my acer travelmate laptop (intel centrino cpu). In the last few days, my laptop has become almost unusable due to overloading input/output to the disk, that seems to be triggered both by desktop applications (e.g.kpackages, kaffeine, etc) and terminal applications entered through the konsole terminal emulation, e.g. apt-get, that freezes reading the database.
As I have checked out, enough free swap area seems to be available, so no reason of such i/o is evident. Furthermore, from the system monitor on the kde panel displays one gets that almost 100% cpu is busy due to system activity, while 'top' is detecting a very low cpu activity - i cannot explain such inconsistent behaviour.
Here are my questions: - What can be the origin of such high i/o traffic? - Why do the kde panel and 'top' report such different informations? - How can i detect the program (system processes behind the running desktop application) that is actually performing i/o ?
Thank you for your help
-- Pol
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