Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:26:09 -0500 Received: from ip68-7-112-74.sd.sd.cox.net ([68.7.112.74]:2570 "EHLO clpanic.kennet.coplanar.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:25:48 -0500 Message-ID: <016401c1cc02$aa51c110$7e0aa8c0@bridge> From: "Jeremy Jackson" To: "Dan Maas" , In-Reply-To: <20020315013644.A26891@morpheus> Subject: Re: unwanted disk access by the kernel? Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:20:32 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You may also want to mount your (root) filesystem(s) with the "noatime" option... check the linux laptops site for other tips. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Maas" To: Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:36 PM Subject: unwanted disk access by the kernel? > I've been trying to set up my laptop for mobile use. I'm having a > problem with unwanted disk activity - even when the system is > completely idle, there is still an occasional trickle of disk writes -SNIP- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/