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From: Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Question on bdflush
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Hello,

Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even
though the system is apparently idle.  I think if no more new buffers
becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk.   I'm working
on a notebook, and I found the periodic disk access is very annoying and
consuming a lot of power.

Thanks!

Joe

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