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Re: The very long harddisk indicator light flashing time after the system has been started.

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From: k.n...@nospam.demon.nl (Kees Nuyt)
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Subject: Re: The very long harddisk indicator light flashing time after the system has been started.
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 14:33:01 +0200
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by: Kees Nuyt - Tue, 18 May 2021 12:33 UTC

On Mon, 17 May 2021 21:33:23 -0700 (PDT), "hongy...@gmail.com"
<hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Ubuntu 20.04, each time when I start the machine and
> enter the system, I find that the hard disk indicator
> light will be flashing for a very long time. As a
> result, during this period, the data IO performance
> is very poor.
>
> Any hints for debugging/fixing this problem?

Disable automatic (security) updates.
Or install a Linux distro with less bloat.
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Kees Nuyt

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Re: The very long harddisk indicator light flashing time after the system has be	Kees Nuyt

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