# Disk write operations every 5min **URL:** \ **Category:** 📦 Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO)\ **Tags:** docker, cron, vm, aio, proxmox\ **Created:** [February 18, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792 "2025-02-18T12:31:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chili4](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/chili4/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Chili4](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Chili4)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792/1 "2025-02-18T12:31:23Z")
Hello everybody, I am using Nextcloud AIO in a Proxmox VM, with my datadir being on an HDD. For a reason that I don’t understand, every 5min, there are disk write operations (about 30kB), and it makes spin my HDD. ![image](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/5/05fe8ba837e48fa078d919b5c382bbd86c0879d0.png) I tried to understand where it could come from. I have understood that it might be something related to Redis (not sure about this), but I don’t really know how to verify this, and if there is something to configure. Thanks for your help! ---
**Author:** ![NaXal](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/naxal/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@NaXal](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/NaXal)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792/2 "2025-02-18T14:03:39Z")
Default cron running? ![001](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/a/cad696f713b79201eb8e212468d6e4230e3e9f47.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Chili4](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/chili4/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Chili4](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Chili4)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792/3 "2025-02-18T17:39:01Z")
It may be this yes! Now I have to figure out how to access the crontab when using AIO ---
**Author:** ![Chili4](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/chili4/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Chili4](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Chili4)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792/4 "2025-02-19T07:22:01Z")
Yes you’re right, it comes from the background jobs. For a reason that I don’t understand, I can’t change to AJAX, the modification doesn’t apply. Now I’m trying to understand what is the background job that is doing disk write access, but I’m struggling a bit with this ---
**Author:** ![jtr](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/jtr/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@jtr](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/jtr)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792/5 "2025-02-19T22:28:52Z")
There are anywhere from ~50 to hundreds of background jobs internal to Nextcloud Server and/or associated with the various apps you may have installed or settings toggled on. What is your underlying goal here? It doesn’t sound like there is much I/O occurring. You seem concerned about drives being spun up, but you’re going to have a challenging time eliminating things entirely - after all it’s a _server_ not a workstation. If that’s your real concern, I guess just shut your server down on between when you are using it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/system/32/29333_2.png) [@system](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/disk-write-operations-every-5min/217792/6 "2025-05-19T12:31:47Z")
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