totallyspun
January 11th, 2011, 01:57 AM
Hey, tried everything I can think of with my limited Ubuntu knowledge, looking for some assistance on this one.
Recently upgraded through the upgrade manager from 10.4 LTS to 10.10 Maverick. Not entirely sure that this issue is related to the new version, but the time-line would suggest a link. Also, never happened on previous installs. My system is a 3GHz pentium 4 with 2GB ram.
I frequently unrar from archives on my primary hard drive to a target location on a secondary storage drive, both on board SATA. This is where I'm experiencing the problem mostly, although a straight file copy/move in the same direction results in the same. I can get through about 2-300MB of write to the drive before it grinds to a halt, have to reboot the entire system.
Since the upgrade the second drive has had this probelm with write/access. Seems okay to read, but any time I write to it freezes up the entire system as described above. System monitor doesn't seem to indicate anything using resources unexpectedly, neither does TOP except that memory usage will go to about 80% used up even with no user applicaitons running. When it's frozen I do see a peak out of CPU usage through System Monitor every ~35 seconds, but cannot determine which program is using it.
Thought doing a fresh 10.10 install from CD might help; didn't. Upgraded storage drive to ext4 to match primary drive, didn't help. have opened up machine and done a throrough cleaning and checked all cords to the drives. Have cleared as much space on the storage drive as possible - it was about 90% full, down to about 75% now, which never presented this problem when It was that full previously (previous ubuntu versions).
Have tried both unrar and unrar-free. Doesn't seem to be a problem with unrar because it can unpack to a same-disk target no issue and quite fast, and also regular copy or write to storage drive does the same thing.
I'm at a loss, and this problem makes this system virtually unusable for me. Would really appreciate any insight from the community. I'm happy to provide any additional details needed. Might need steps to find them if they're intermediate-advanced in nature to get.
Thanks!
Recently upgraded through the upgrade manager from 10.4 LTS to 10.10 Maverick. Not entirely sure that this issue is related to the new version, but the time-line would suggest a link. Also, never happened on previous installs. My system is a 3GHz pentium 4 with 2GB ram.
I frequently unrar from archives on my primary hard drive to a target location on a secondary storage drive, both on board SATA. This is where I'm experiencing the problem mostly, although a straight file copy/move in the same direction results in the same. I can get through about 2-300MB of write to the drive before it grinds to a halt, have to reboot the entire system.
Since the upgrade the second drive has had this probelm with write/access. Seems okay to read, but any time I write to it freezes up the entire system as described above. System monitor doesn't seem to indicate anything using resources unexpectedly, neither does TOP except that memory usage will go to about 80% used up even with no user applicaitons running. When it's frozen I do see a peak out of CPU usage through System Monitor every ~35 seconds, but cannot determine which program is using it.
Thought doing a fresh 10.10 install from CD might help; didn't. Upgraded storage drive to ext4 to match primary drive, didn't help. have opened up machine and done a throrough cleaning and checked all cords to the drives. Have cleared as much space on the storage drive as possible - it was about 90% full, down to about 75% now, which never presented this problem when It was that full previously (previous ubuntu versions).
Have tried both unrar and unrar-free. Doesn't seem to be a problem with unrar because it can unpack to a same-disk target no issue and quite fast, and also regular copy or write to storage drive does the same thing.
I'm at a loss, and this problem makes this system virtually unusable for me. Would really appreciate any insight from the community. I'm happy to provide any additional details needed. Might need steps to find them if they're intermediate-advanced in nature to get.
Thanks!