jbd2 constantly writing to disk [closed]
I know there are related issues, but none of them seem to apply to my case. Below is iotop output. jbd2 is constantly above 90% usage. It's been grinding away for 2 days. It stops for a while after a reboot, but then starts again after some time. I'm using 32bit Ubuntu 13.04. 200GB WD disk. Smart disabled in bios. No raid configs.
Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 1997.25 K/s
TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND
307 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 811.58 B/s 0.00 % 93.68 % [jbd2/sda1-8]
15454 be/4 curvv 0.00 B/s 1623.16 B/s 0.00 % 0.88 % firefox
4305 be/4 curvv 0.00 B/s 721.23 K/s 0.00 % 0.70 % gvfsd-metadata
2048 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
1 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % init
2 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kthreadd]
3 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]
...
I also ran the following commands to kill the process and remove the stored metadata.
pkill gvfsd-metadata
rm -rf .local/share/gvfs-metadata