Hi it could be that you are using a journalling filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs, 'cause those are writting to disk every 5 sec or so... I haven't found out how to make it write to disk a little less often, but if anybody know how, I would like to hear about it!!
-->negon Citat Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello ! > > I am trying to spot the application which are regularly using the disk, > waking it up from sleep and eating unnecessary my battery. Is there > some program which could log (on a tmpfs of course ! ;-) ) any disk > access with timestamp, file (well if it doesn't work at filesystem > level, that doesn't hurt) and PID of the application for every disk > access ? > > Moreover, the Battery Powered Linux HOWTO is quite old, is there some > other documents about all this. For example, how to instruct Linux to > keep the data in cache longer ? > -- > BOFH excuse #150: > Arcserve crashed the server again. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
