Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-08-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 22:40:28 Florian Philipp wrote: Does laptop-mode help? app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools I hadn't thought of that - thanks. I'll try it and see. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

[gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it. This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set automatically by having the block layer included (and who hasn't?) together with ext4. Google shows

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it. This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set automatically by

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. What, at least once a minute? While the system's idling, waiting for something to do? Doesn't sound likely to me. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun 31 July 2011 18:39:21 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. What, at least once a minute? While the system's idling,

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. What, at least once a minute? While the

Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up

2011-07-31 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 31.07.2011 17:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it. This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set automatically by having the block layer included