Hard disk continuous activity

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Mate-settings-daemon is hammering my drive on startup

Hi This new machine I'm using sports a core i5 Skylake, and a hefty 16GB of RAM. I noticed recently that right after startup, it's sometimes extremely slow, even for simple tasks such as opening caja. Here's what my standard battery of indicators was showing during one such occurence: [image] (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk I/O) Note that the disk activity is intensive and that a significant amount of CPU is used waiting for I/O too. (Dark blue stuff on the image) I further installed iotop a…

Tmp folder filling up

I am running ubuntu-mate 16.04.1. I partitioned my harddrive so that my root (/) partition is 60 GB. Periodically during the day the Disk Usage Analyzer will pop up saying that I am running out of space in the / partition. In checking there will be over 50GB of files in the tmp folder. Of course, these are cleared out when I reboot. Is this a possible bug in ubuntu 16.04? I have read the other posts relating to this question, but no one is addressing why Ubuntu is putting 50+GB of files (almost …

Caja taking minutes to open after boot

Hello Guys, I have been using Ubuntu MATE for a while and so far it has been smooth. Some days ago my computer started to take long time (like to 2min) to open Caja, this only happens when i open it the first time, after that it will work normal. So i searched in lots of places and didn’t find any topic related to this issue in any forum, that’s why I’m asking here. So where can i start looking for Caja logs to start debugging this? I have Ubuntu MATE 16.10 with today’s latest updates, i ha…