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Kaffeine

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 15

New install, remaining problems...

Hi everyone,

After a fresh install, I experience problems with the gvsfd-metadata process. When using Nautilus under Gnome, it suddenly and randomly uses all the system resources. I don't know where it could come from... gnome? the filesystem? 

Secondly, my hard drive is also freezing the whole system randomly. I can hear the drive head moving or getting in position. Maybe it simply suspends, but this happen while I am using the computer. what program could deal with this?

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by Kaffeine (2009-10-21 15:09:22)

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: New install, remaining problems...

With respect to your second question, I had a similar situation when I tried to do too much powersaving on my laptop.
I had

hdparm -B 1 -S 12 /dev/sda

in my /etc/rc.local in order to activate a more agressive powersaving mode of the hdd. The result was that the hdd constantly parking but then was reactivated again, which resulted in constant start/stop noise. I ended up removing the line and the hdd behaved normal again.

Just found this article on hdparm and hdd parking:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hdp … g_your_HDD

Last edited by MadTux (2009-10-21 17:00:58)

Kaffeine

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 15

Re: New install, remaining problems...

Just found this article on hdparm and hdd parking:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hdp … g_your_HDD

Thanks, it worked perfectly!!

But do you have any idea why it was parking too often? as in, is that a default hparm/rc.conf/kernel parameter?

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: New install, remaining problems...

But do you have any idea why it was parking too often? as in, is that a default hparm/rc.conf/kernel parameter?

My understanding:
Apparently this is something with upstream manufacturers setting the parking to occur to often.  Linux follows what the manufacturers set by default, while Windows does its own thing.  Doing your own thing is better in this case...

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Kaffeine

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 15

Re: New install, remaining problems...

I solved my gvsfd-metadata process problem by using a new user account. Maybe this is just a useful thing to do when migrating to a new major gnome release...

Kaffeine

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 15

Re: New install, remaining problems...

Another comment about the HDD parking problem. As this problem is hardware, the same behaviour appears with Windows too. I recently discovered that there is a hdparm windows version, and it solves the problem exactly like on a linux host, great!

http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/