[coLinux-users] Heavy hard drive activity and lock up

[GuyBrush <guy...@gm...>]

Hello,
I’m a very happy colinux user and have been using it for a while.
For some reason for the last two months I have been getting heavy HD
usage which does not allow me to run commands in the “andLinux Console
(FLTK)” or remote terminal.

I’m using Andlinux which has colinux kernel ver. 2.6.22.18-co-0.7.3 and
I upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. I also have the locatedb disabled in cron. I
tried using iotop but its not supported by the compiled colinux kernel.
My host OS is XP home sp3 edition.

Is there any more information I could provide that will help give more
clues?
I tried looking at syslog and I think this part is where the system
stops responding with the heavy HD usage.

Feb 10 22:36:31 andLinux mysqld[2586]: 090210 22:36:31 [Note]
/usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Feb 10 22:36:31 andLinux mysqld[2586]: Version: '5.0.67-0ubuntu6'
socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 (Ubuntu)
Feb 10 22:36:31 andLinux kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Feb 10 22:36:31 andLinux kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Feb 10 22:36:31 andLinux /etc/mysql/debian-start[2634]: Upgrading MySQL
tables if necessary.
Feb 10 22:36:32 andLinux /etc/mysql/debian-start[2637]: Looking for
'mysql' in: /usr/bin/mysql
Feb 10 22:36:32 andLinux /etc/mysql/debian-start[2637]: Looking for
'mysqlcheck' in: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck
Feb 10 22:36:32 andLinux /etc/mysql/debian-start[2637]: This
installation of MySQL is already upgraded to 5.0.67, use --force if you
still n
eed to run mysql_upgrade
Feb 10 22:36:32 andLinux /etc/mysql/debian-start[2664]: Checking for
insecure root accounts.
Feb 10 22:36:32 andLinux /etc/mysql/debian-start[2676]: Triggering
myisam-recover for all MyISAM tables
Feb 10 22:36:45 andLinux /usr/sbin/cron[2903]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Feb 10 22:36:45 andLinux /usr/sbin/cron[2909]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Feb 10 22:36:45 andLinux /usr/sbin/cron[2909]: (CRON) INFO (Running
@reboot jobs)
Feb 10 22:39:01 andLinux /USR/SBIN/CRON[3148]: (root) CMD ( [ -x
/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/
-type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm)
Feb 10 22:56:22 andLinux -- MARK --
Feb 10 22:59:54 andLinux init: tty1 main process ended, respawning
Feb 10 23:09:01 andLinux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8943]: (root) CMD ( [ -x
/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find
/var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 |
xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm)
Feb 10 23:17:01 andLinux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8952]: (root) CMD ( cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Feb 11 09:23:23 andLinux syslogd 1.5.0#2ubuntu6: restart.
Feb 11 09:23:24 andLinux kernel: Cannot find map file.
Feb 11 09:23:24 andLinux kernel: Loaded 9213 symbols from 2 modules.
Feb 11 09:23:24 andLinux kernel: Linux version 2.6.22.18-co-0.7.3
(hn@hn-lt) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1 PREEMPT Wed Apr 16 18:50:10 UTC 2008
Feb 11 09:23:24 andLinux kernel: 256MB LOWMEM available.


I think swap is working ok and its 255mb
This is my settings.txt file

mem=256
root=/dev/cobd0
initrd=initrd.gz
kernel=vmlinux
exec0="pulseaudio\pulseaudio.exe"
cobd0=Drives\base.drv
cobd1=Drives\swap.drv
eth0=slirp
eth1=tuntap,"TAP-Colinux",00:11:22:33:44:55
cofs0=C:\


Is there any known problem with colinux and antivirus software on the
host OS?
I have a samba mount and I’m using Comodo Firewall, Spybot Tea Timer and 
Avast anti virus.

Also… I could be wrong but I notice the lockups happen when I’m not
watching or the computer is idling. :o)

Thank you