[mythtv-users] lots of writes with nothing goin gon

[Jerome Yuzyk]

Over the last couple weeks I have noticed my Myth BE/FE box writing to disk 
about every 6 seconds. I use GKrellM in daemon mode to monitor my machines 
and see the activity in a graph with reads separated from writes, very 
noticeably. I also see the drive light wink on the front of the machine, even 
when there's no recording or playback or anything going on. This didn't 
happen before, and I really haven't added anything to the machine since the 
20.2 upgrade. Here's a  ps ax  from the machine - does anyone recognize any 
culprits? Can you recommend anything that would tell me what is doing those 
writes?


  195 ?        S<     0:00 [khubd]
  197 ?        S<     0:00 [kseriod]
  221 ?        S<    13:13 [kswapd0]
  273 ?        S<     0:00 [aio/0]
  411 ?        S<     0:00 [kpsmoused]
  440 ?        S<     5:55 [ata/0]
  441 ?        S<     0:00 [ata_aux]
  446 ?        S<     0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
  447 ?        S<     9:22 [scsi_eh_1]
  455 ?        S<     2:57 [kjournald]
  483 ?        S<     0:00 [kauditd]
  522 ?        S<s    0:00 /sbin/udevd -d
  985 ?        S<     0:00 [ivtv0/0]
 1059 ?        S<     0:00 [ivtv1/0]
 1236 ?        S<     0:00 [kjournald]
 1237 ?        S<     9:37 [kjournald]
 1576 ?        Ss     0:01 syslogd -m 0
 1579 ?        Ss     0:00 klogd -x
 1591 ?        Ss     0:00 dbus-daemon --system
 1646 ?        Ssl    1:19 automount
 1679 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
 1834 ?        Ss     0:15 /usr/libexec/postfix/master
 1839 ?        S      0:07 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
 1871 ?        Ss   426:06 /usr/sbin/gkrellmd -d
 1883 ?        Ss     0:39 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
 1937 ?        Ssl    0:00 console-kit-daemon
 2010 ?        Ss     0:05 crond
 2022 ?        Ss     0:11 lircd
 2061 ?        Ss     0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
 2097 ?        Ss     0:32 hald
 2098 ?        S      0:00 hald-runner
 2116 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
 2117 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event3
 2118 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event4
 2136 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq
 2158 ?        S     12:51 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
 2168 ?        S<     0:30 [kondemand/0]
 2186 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd -q never
 2191 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
 2192 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
 2193 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
 2194 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
 2229 tty7     SLs+ 307:14 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 
vt7 -auth /var/run/xaut
 2230 ?        S      0:00 -:0
 2251 ?        Ss     5:39 /usr/bin/fluxbox
 2303 ?        Ss     
0:04 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-ses
 2306 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session 
startfluxbox
 2307 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 
4 --print-address 6
 2311 ?        S      0:00 irexec
 2419 ?        S<     0:00 [cifsoplockd]
 2420 ?        S<     0:00 [cifsdnotifyd]
 2425 ?        S<     6:41 [cifsd]
 4440 ?        Ssl  322:14 /usr/bin/mythbackend -v 
important,general,file --daemon
 9593 ?        Ss     0:29 /usr/sbin/httpd
10486 ?        S      0:01 [pdflush]
21141 ?        Ss     0:08 ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g
21246 ?        S      0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd
21994 ?        S      1:30 [pdflush]
23421 ?        S      0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u
23630 ?        SLsl 2940:38 /usr/bin/mythfrontend
24252 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: mythtv [priv]
24255 ?        S      0:00 sshd: mythtv at pts/0
24256 pts/0    Ss     0:00 -bash
24296 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps ax
29660 ?        S      0:13 /usr/sbin/httpd
31074 ?        S      
0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql -
31127 ?        Sl    
64:14 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/m