my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

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senthu
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my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by senthu » 2019/12/05 08:52:04

Hi
i have CENTOS 8 installed on dell laptop. OS is installed on SSD and i have one more HDD.my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while. even for small size file like 3 MB in same drive. but Copy work normal. file move "mv" command is working fine.
what might be the reason ? any suggestion?

BShT
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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by BShT » 2019/12/05 17:06:59

try to find some logs or see what is consuming disk with iostat or atop

senthu
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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by senthu » 2019/12/05 17:29:28

even i could not move my mouse during that time, how could i run those commands.

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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by BShT » 2019/12/05 17:32:09

run atop -d then cut and paste

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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by BShT » 2019/12/05 17:45:17

you can set nice of atop

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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by senthu » 2019/12/05 17:59:40

it so wired now i could not reproduce the error, all i did was just run fstrim on my SSD, where i have installed the OS, but i had same issue on my HDD as well. that too gone. btw my problem solved thanks a lot for your kind reply.

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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by BShT » 2019/12/05 18:29:13

from http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/fstrim.8.html

Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard, might
negatively affect the lifetime of poor-quality SSD devices. For most
desktop and server systems a sufficient trimming frequency is once a
week. Note that not all devices support a queued trim, so each trim
command incurs a performance penalty on whatever else might be trying
to use the disk at the time.

senthu
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Re: my CUT and paste make my hard drive too busy and system freeze for a while

Post by senthu » 2019/12/07 10:07:36

it is happened again. using htop command i found this is caused by GSconnect extension. already a lot of discussions going on.
https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-she ... issues/676
https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-she ... issues/394
https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-andro ... c1480c8bf7

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