On Tuesday 22 May 2007 20:57, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 May 2007 20:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > It clearly should not consider 'itself' as IO activity. This > > > suggests some bug in the 'detect activity' mechanism, agreed? I'm > > > wondering whether you are seeing the same problem, or is all > > > swap-prefetch IO on your system continuous until it's done [or some > > > other IO comes inbetween]? > > > > When nothing else is happening anywhere on the system it reads in > > bursts and goes to sleep during journal writeout. > > hm, what do you call 'journal writeout' here that would be happening on > my system?
Not really sure what you have in terms of fs, but here even with nothing going on, ext3 writes to disk every 5 seconds with kjournald. -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
