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Re: [opensuse] Unknown disk activity
  • From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:07:19 -0500
  • Message-id: <4B9FF307.2030502@xxxxxxx>
Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 schrieb Duaine Hechler:


I finally have a quiet enough case and fans that I hear all disk
activity and about every 5-10 *seconds* I hear disk activity.
[...]


IIRC, the default ext3 filesystem commit interval is 5 seconds.

You might want to use the laptop-mode-tools to change the commit interval
and to add the mount option relatime and some more tweaks. Please have a
look at least at the main configuration file /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-
mode.conf after the installation of the laptop-mode-tools package.

HTH
Jan

Except running reiserfs.

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