This is either a really serious problem that's being overlooked or something very silly wrt the configuration of some programs.
I'll try to describe this bug as it appears for me. Let me know if you require more information. I'm running kubuntu 9.10 64 bit testing with the latest updates as of posting (installed from daily images). This problem manifests itself at all times, starting from boot. In essence, kjournald2 is making periodic writes to the hard drive, somewhere in /, not in /home (as I've got that on a different partition). Not only does this result in frequent wakeups of the hard drive, but it also consumes disk space! Attached is the evidence. iotop shows the culprit, and df shows my disk space gradually dwindling with every second. For further information, my uname -a is Linux aiur 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm using ext4 on all partitions and have noatime set as a flag. There are no processes running that I am aware of that hook into kjournald2 to cause writes. ** Attachment added: "df" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33962891/df -- kjournald2 writes to disk about every 10 seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
