Bug 157333 - laptop disk hammering on resume ...
Summary: laptop disk hammering on resume ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 157930 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Zenworks (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 5
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: James Willcox
QA Contact: Eric Waldow
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Reported: 2006-03-10 22:09 UTC by Michael Meeks
Modified: 2006-06-15 20:21 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Meeks 2006-03-10 22:09:27 UTC 
I resume my (poor, tired etc.) laptop running on battery and suddenly there is a frenzy of hammering of the disk:

 hammerd: tons of disk / CPU thrash; one of either:

a)	root     25983  9.0  2.6  46548 27112 ?        R    20:20   0:03 /usr/lib/zmd/query-system /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db

or

b)	root      2710  1.4  4.4  83844 46128 ?        Ssl  17:57   2:08 /usr/lib/zmd/zmd-bin /usr/lib/zmd/zmd.exe       --sleep-resume 

depending on taste.

Why is it necessary (given that I'm almost certainly not going to have a valid / connected network, and/or to have done anything too radical while asleep) to go & do so much disk I/O ? :-)
Comment 1 Naresh Wignarajah 2006-03-10 22:21:52 UTC 
haha, assigning to snorp, as he did the network manager integration maybe this has something to do with it.
Comment 2 James Willcox 2006-03-10 22:44:38 UTC 
Yeah, this sucks.  Most likely zmd is waking up because the scheduled refresh time has passed.  You can set this to a really high value if you would like to avoid  this kind of thing.  'rug set refresh-interval <seconds>'.  This reminds me -- it would probably be good to make the default refresh on the zmd with suse be at like 3am or something when nobody is doing anything.....
Comment 3 James Willcox 2006-03-10 22:56:19 UTC 
Oh, and the NetworkManager integration isn't getting built at all....should probably fix that
Comment 4 James Willcox 2006-03-15 15:10:30 UTC 
*** Bug 157930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 James Willcox 2006-04-25 20:55:47 UTC 
Ok, there are now patches checked in that make this a *lot* better.  It was taking on the order of minutes sometimes with a server like hazard loaded for zmd to wake up.  Now it's down to around 7 seconds on my laptop, with obviously a lot less disk I/O.  Fresh startup performance has not been improved, however, so that's next.