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rodcrit
Oct 28, 2017Luminary
6.9.0 firmware update
since the update was installed - my NAS is continually showing activity on the discs. before update the unit remained quite and silent for the majority of the time. it is now chuntering away con...
- Oct 28, 2017
Disable "File Search" on the GUI System/Overview tab I guess
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 28, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Are you remembering to login to SSH as the user 'root', not 'admin'?
- rodcritOct 28, 2017Luminary
Was remembering that, but was forgetting to use 'root'. That part all ok now thanks.
Rod
- mdgm-ntgrOct 28, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
O.K. now that you're in have you checked the output e.g. of
# top
to see if a process is using lots of resources?
- rodcritOct 28, 2017Luminary
OK -- yes a process called "tracker-minor-f is using ~89%
and tracker-extract ~22%
those are by far the largest user of resources... but dont have clue what they are doing !
as you can see from the attached screen dump - they are varying quite a bit
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