Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:

Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 schrieb Duaine Hechler:

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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

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Rodney Baker wrote:

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:13:20 Duaine Hechler wrote:

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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.

The knowns:

- opensuse 11.1 standard install - no antivirus software - no cron entries that I have put in - Kontact running - no timed entries - Thunderbird - every *minute *checking for emails - Firefox - no website up with any repetitive items

Thanks, Duaine

iotop is your friend. It is like top but shows process i/o. You'll quickly see which process is accessing the disk.

If it is not installed, zypper in iotop (as root) should find it.

If found out from iotop that is coming from Postgresql stats collector process. Why and how turned on ? How to turn off ? Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Duaine Hechler [03-16-10 21:35]:

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If found out from iotop that is coming from Postgresql stats collector process.

Why and how turned on ? How to turn off ?

Duaine

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as <root> rcpostgress stop killall postgress

I don't use Postgress, rather mysql, and do not know if it needs to be capitalized.

Are you sure that you don't use it? It is *not* installed by default, rather mysql or not at all....

I use Quasar Accounting by linuxcanada.com - and it uses Postgres Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org