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From: "Dan Maas" <dmaas@dcine.com>
To: "Jeremy Jackson" <jerj@coplanar.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: unwanted disk access by the kernel?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:46:06 -0500
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> You may also want to mount your (root) filesystem(s) with the
> "noatime" option... check the linux laptops site for other tips.

Thanks Jeremy and Alan - mounting the filesystems 'noatime,nodiratime'
cleared up the last bits of disk activity. (I'm still curious why atime
updates would be happening even though the system is as idle as I can make
it without cutting the power... =)

By the way, if I enable 'APM makes CPU idle calls when idle,' I get a
constant stream of 'apm_do_idle failed (3)' messages. APM also doesn't seem
to be able to power the machine down... This is a Dell Inspiron 7500...
Maybe I should try ACPI?

Regards,
Dan

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