John, I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest that some process is helpfully indexing your disk for you, to speed up file searches.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 6:12 PM Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried ftrace as described in the article? > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, November 22, 2019 6:02 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:11:51 +0000 > > Reid [email protected] dijo: > > > > > This is what JBD2 is: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_block_device > > > > Thanks. > > > > Apparently JBD is journaling my /home partition. But why so much and so > > often? The /home folder is on an SSD, so I assume that it is not as > > harmful as if it was a traditional hard drive, but it seems excessive. > > I wonder if there is a way to get it to cool its jets. Maybe a time > > limitation, like once every half hour is enough. > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
