disk % usage issue

[Nicksan]

Hey people,

I'm new here, I installed linux lite because I was looking for a light and simple look OS. It also made my PC faster and that was great. But a few weeks later i was having some disk usage problems when i was using it. I have double boot with windows.

My main problem with the disk usage is the % usage of the disk. Sometimes the % of disk shoot out to 100% just by executing some command, like opening the browser, or running some programs like matlab. I have checked the RAM usage with the task manager and there is no 100% RAM usage problem (I normally use around 60-70% RAM), and the hard drive I have is very pretty new.

When I get the % disk usage problem, i used iotop to know what was happening in the disk, I found that the last program that I have run appears using 99% of the disk, as well as other programs that had been running without problems. So several processes appear using 99% of the disk, which ends up blocking my computer and with no other choice but to use REISUB or simply the power button(sometimes REISUB doesn't work either ).

Has anybody present this same problem? and what should i do to fix it?  :'(

my thanks to the one who gives me some indication on what to do  ;D

[Nicksan]

PS: I could not find anything in the forum that was related, so if you have already replied something like that I apologize for going back to an old thread

[firenice03]

[member=48518]Nicksan[/member] I coukd see disk perf would go 100% utilization (read/write) not space utilization as 99% full unless the partition is sized funny.

How did you set up/install did you use alongside Windows or the Something else option??
How are the partitions setup...
Pasting the outputs of...

Code:

lsblk
df -hT
free -h

May help figure out???

[trinidad]

Are you using timeshift on a schedule?

TC

[TheDead]

I'll leave you respond to firenice03's questions ... and maybe add, if the computer is a laptop and using a slooow 4200RPM standard HDD, could mean trouble.
If you have an SSD, forget I mentionned it

[Nicksan]

[member=48518]Nicksan[/member] I coukd see disk perf would go 100% utilization (read/write) not space utilization as 99% full unless the partition is sized funny.

How did you set up/install did you use alongside Windows or the Something else option??
How are the partitions setup...
Pasting the outputs of...

Code:

lsblk
df -hT
free -h

May help figure out???

Hello, sorry for my delay, yes, i have dual boot with windows in my notebook. I send my outputs.

panchisco > ~ > lsblk
NAME      MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE    RO  TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda            8:0      0    931,5G  0    disk
├─sda1      8:1      0        16M  0    part
├─sda2      8:2      0    354,8G  0    part
├─sda3      8:3      0      589M  0    part
├─sda4      8:4      0      100M  0    part  /boot/efi
├─sda5      8:5      0      476G  0    part
├─sda6      8:6      0      488M  0    part  /boot
├─sda7      8:7      0      24,1G  0    part  /
└─sda8      8:8      0      75,4G  0    part  /home
 panchisco > ~ > df -hT
Filesystem    Type          Size    Used    Avail    Use%  Mounted on
udev            devtmpfs  3,8G        0    3,8G      0%    /dev
tmpfs            tmpfs      787M    3,2M    783M      1%    /run
/dev/sda7      ext4          24G      18G    4,7G    80%    /
tmpfs            tmpfs        3,9G    256K    3,9G      1%    /dev/shm
tmpfs            tmpfs        5,0M    4,0K    5,0M      1%    /run/lock
tmpfs            tmpfs        3,9G          0    3,9G      0%    /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda6      ext4        457M    214M    209M    51%  /boot
/dev/sda4      vfat            96M      33M    64M    35%  /boot/efi
/dev/sda8      ext4            74G    29G    42G      41%  /home
tmpfs            tmpfs        787M      24K    787M      1%  /run/user/1000
 panchisco > ~ > free -h
                    total        used        free      shared    buff/cache  available
Mem:          7,7Gi      5,9Gi      331Mi      526Mi      1,4Gi        1,0Gi
Swap:            0B          0B          0B
 panchisco > ~ > 

[Nicksan]

Are you using timeshift on a schedule?

TC

Hi, no i don't or at least I don't know, I have not made big changes to the OS, I have only given it an average use :c

[Nicksan]

I'll leave you resond to firenice03's questions ... and maybe add, if the computer is a laptop and using a slooow 4200RPM standard HDD, could mean trouble.
If you have an SSD, forget I mentionned it

Hi, my computer is a laptop, but using a ST1000LX015, hybrid 2.5", SATA 6GB/s, 5400rpm, 128MB. It is supposed to have a fairly high transfer rate by having a SSD portion  hrug

[Nicksan]

Hey there, today i was using lunix lite again and i was using iotop to see what was happening with the disk, suddenly my notebook get freezed and i was able to take a pic to the iotop terminal. Could this help?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oO-7UDt...sp=sharing

[icedigger]

Replace it with a real SSD drive.  Those hybrid drives are weird.