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 you tried adding things to your mount parameters like 'noatime' or > 'relatime'? I've been specifying 'noatime' on all partitions for several years now; it's automatic behaviour on my part. > What about "data=writeback"? I don't like the sound of the warning in the man page. Thanks for the ideas. So far I'm inclining to the reformatting I mentioned. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
