SUMMARY ksystemstats continuously accessing my drive at ~1,7% but zero % writes or reads. Disk light flickers 3-4 times a second non stop. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Just a clean install Kubuntu 21.10 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT When Idle, disk light flickers 3-4 times every second, iostat -0 says only ksystemstats is doing this, and mostly actually the only thing actively accessing the disk. EXPECTED RESULT (observed after removing ksystemstats) Disk light flickers like once every 5-15 seconds when idle SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 21.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 (came default with it) KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0 (came default with it) Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Can not kill the process ksystemstats, so had to uninstall it. Then the problem is solved. After reinstalling it, the problem came back. For now i removed it, but looks like a crucial part for Kubuntu. Hardware: DeskMini X300 Series with cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G with Radeon Graphics storage: Micron/Crucial Non-Volatile memory controller network: enp2s0 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller disk: /dev/nvme0n1 Micron/Crucial Disk partition: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p2 Partition memory: Main Memory, 32GB
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/ksystemstats/-/merge_requests/26
Git commit 03fa8a7405730e1f4fa2b0104872cd03176ebb9f by Arjen Hiemstra. Committed on 29/11/2021 at 11:16. Pushed by ahiemstra into branch 'master'. Don't update disks if no one is listening It's not very useful to update things that aren't being used. M +10 -1 plugins/disks/disks.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/ksystemstats/commit/03fa8a7405730e1f4fa2b0104872cd03176ebb9f
Git commit 7406648cfa06ee220f65b6f2940fe30bbb620796 by Arjen Hiemstra. Committed on 29/11/2021 at 16:44. Pushed by ahiemstra into branch 'Plasma/5.23'. Don't update disks if no one is listening It's not very useful to update things that aren't being used. (cherry picked from commit 03fa8a7405730e1f4fa2b0104872cd03176ebb9f) M +10 -1 plugins/disks/disks.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/ksystemstats/commit/7406648cfa06ee220f65b6f2940fe30bbb620796