On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:41:38 -0600 Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 02/28/2009 11:14 AM, green wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-02-28, 059, Bob Cox wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:21:16 +0000, Bob Cox > >> (debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com) wrote: > >>> You may need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do > >>> what you want. > >>> > >>> aptitude show noflushd > >> Which is for IDE drives and you are using SATA. Ignore that suggestion > >> then! > > > > I did notice that and so discounted it immediately, but why would ext3 need > > to do a write to journal every 5 seconds anyway when _nothing_ is being > > written to the filesystem? In that case a write only makes sense when the > > filesystem is unmounted. > > > > If something is in fact writing to the filesystem, then I need to find out > > what. > You can abuse laptop mode and do echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump and then look in the syslog I think. You may need to also enable laptop mode for this to work (at least used to be the case) echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > Having members of a RAID set go to sleep independently of control by > md seems kinda scary. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
