The issue appeared after changing from upstart to systemd a few days before so I can't tell you if this worked with a prior kernel and systemd. But with upstart I have never seen this behavior before.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623194 Title: Permanent I/O from kworker and ecryptfs Status in Linux: Unknown Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev and after upgrading from upstart to systemd (231-6) I'm noticing that if the system is on idle (even if only booted to the login screen) there are permanent I/O activities on my hard disk drive. On making a look with inotifywait this happens by permanently accessing files in /home/.ecryptfs/sworddragon/.Private (but no I/O appears at the transparent mountpoint at /home/sworddragon). On making a look with iotop the only I/O activities are comming from kworker (and sometimes jbd2) at this time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1623194/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
