Blog Rss Feed
Users that have upgraded to Leopard say they are only getting two hours of battery life per charge instead of three.
No wonder why the batteries life is so short, Leopard is constantly accessing the disk. I have unsuccessfully tried to find which process constantly accesses the disk to kill it.
Here is the activity on my disk when I am not using my computer.
fred[529]> iostat 5
disk0 disk1 cpu load average
KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us sy id 1m 5m 15m
5.53 7 0.04 0.00 0 0.00 63 13 24 1.43 1.46 1.52
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 62 13 25 1.48 1.47 1.52
5.40 8 0.04 0.00 0 0.00 62 13 25 1.52 1.48 1.52
4.76 29 0.14 0.00 0 0.00 63 12 24 1.56 1.49 1.53
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 66 12 22 1.75 1.53 1.54
5.89 4 0.02 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 20 1.69 1.52 1.54
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 66 13 21 1.80 1.54 1.55
6.48 4 0.03 0.00 0 0.00 67 12 21 1.65 1.52 1.54
5.23 3 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 20 1.60 1.51 1.53
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 20 1.55 1.50 1.53
0.50 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 20 1.51 1.49 1.53
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 67 12 20 1.47 1.48 1.52
6.71 6 0.04 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 20 1.51 1.49 1.53
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 67 12 21 1.55 1.50 1.53
5.95 9 0.05 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 20 1.67 1.52 1.54
5.41 7 0.04 0.00 0 0.00 67 12 20 1.77 1.55 1.54
6.83 5 0.03 0.00 0 0.00 69 12 19 1.87 1.57 1.55
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 68 12 21 1.88 1.58 1.56
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 67 12 21 1.97 1.60 1.56
4.85 7 0.03 0.00 0 0.00 67 12 21 2.05 1.63 1.57
But, sometimes even though I am not doing anything I can see peaks of disk activity even though I am doing noting.
...
disk0 disk1 cpu load average
KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us sy id 1m 5m 15m
20.21 10 0.19 0.00 0 0.00 78 8 14 2.73 2.70 2.32
53.20 6 0.31 0.00 0 0.00 71 9 21 2.08 2.62 2.25
52.40 2 0.10 0.00 0 0.00 76 8 16 2.40 2.68 2.27
61.28 5 0.30 0.00 0 0.00 61 10 29 2.28 2.65 2.27
11.16 27 0.30 0.00 0 0.00 57 13 29 2.66 2.72 2.29
17.33 1 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 63 13 25 2.53 2.69 2.29
46.87 9 0.42 0.00 0 0.00 71 10 18 2.58 2.76 2.29
10.95 31 0.34 0.00 0 0.00 67 13 21 2.41 2.66 2.28
16.71 11 0.19 0.00 0 0.00 77 8 14 2.63 2.77 2.29
17.97 12 0.20 0.00 0 0.00 72 9 19 2.18 2.65 2.26
6.61 3 0.02 0.00 0 0.00 65 12 23 2.53 2.69 2.29
8.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 61 13 26 2.33 2.64 2.27
4.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 62 13 25 2.70 2.71 2.30
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 80 8 12 2.69 2.71 2.30
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 73 10 17 2.55 2.68 2.30
25.90 10 0.25 0.00 0 0.00 75 10 15 2.51 2.67 2.29
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 76 9 15 2.55 2.67 2.30
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 73 10 17 2.58 2.68 2.30
9.33 1 0.01 0.00 0 0.00 67 11 22 2.54 2.67 2.30
0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 75 9 16 2.49 2.65 2.30