Most likely this is the access timestamps being updated on the files
being read, try adding the noatime option to your mount options to
prevent this.
Jochen Baier wrote:
hi,
i run in a weird problem: a script which use the "sleep" command,
generates hardisk access every x seconds. this is really annoyning cause
i can hear the harddisk sound.
an other user reported the same behavier.
the script:
while true; do
sleep 3
done
output from "strace sleep 3":
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