Re: unwanted disk access by the kernel?

Jeremy Jackson (jerj@coplanar.net)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:20:32 -0800

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" <dmaas@dcine.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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
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