From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 29 18:04:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EF51065678 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717E38FC0C for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2nt7-0005Ub-I5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:04:29 +0100 Received: from np-19-75.prenet.pl ([np-19-75.prenet.pl]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:04:29 +0100 Received: from jb.1234abcd by np-19-75.prenet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:04:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <201203010038.31858.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 79.139.19.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1) Subject: Re: hard disk behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:31 -0000 Erich Dollansky ovitrap.com> writes: > ... > I have no idea what causes the noise. What is the machine doing when you hear > it? > > Erich > I use it as a desktop. Mostly web browsing, Firefox, there is always some background activity in there, like financial data streaming, etc. But this sound is so concerning: click ...click-clack, click-clack ... etc. $ top last pid: 62014; load averages: 0.09, 0.06, 0.06 up 4+02:07:06 18:56:08 63 processes: 1 running, 62 sleeping CPU 0: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 2.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 97.2% idle CPU 1: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 96.1% idle Mem: 190M Active, 890M Inact, 261M Wired, 312K Cache, 112M Buf, 644M Free Swap: 3043M Total, 3043M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 58910 jb 22 20 0 319M 262M uwait 0 14:07 1.07% firefox-bi 1283 root 1 20 0 9716K 1148K select 1 5:15 0.98% moused 3344 root 2 23 0 14156K 4940K select 0 8:31 0.00% upowerd 1865 root 1 20 0 9612K 1104K select 1 7:17 0.00% powerd 1978 haldaemon 2 20 0 23300K 6292K piperd 0 7:07 0.00% hald 58961 jb 1 20 0 118M 30068K select 0 5:08 0.00% npviewer.b 58845 jb 1 20 0 374M 309M select 1 4:37 0.00% Xorg 58951 jb 2 20 0 70360K 31416K kqread 0 2:10 0.00% plugin-con 1757 messagebus 1 20 0 9812K 2520K select 0 1:46 0.00% dbus-daemo 59121 jb 5 22 0 56108K 29028K uwait 1 0:32 0.00% pan 1902 root 1 20 0 11324K 3360K select 1 0:23 0.00% sendmail 58882 jb 1 20 0 11944K 2904K select 0 0:22 0.00% gam_server 59173 jb 2 20 0 40164K 20444K piperd 1 0:15 0.00% Terminal 58883 jb 2 20 0 40168K 19744K piperd 1 0:09 0.00% xfce4-pane 58884 jb 1 20 0 39932K 20396K select 0 0:07 0.00% xfdesktop [jb@localhost ~]$