* Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
i have ext3, but it doesnt do that on my box. Also, i would have noticed
any IO activity in the 'swap prefetch off' case. When i said completely
idle, i really meant it ;-)
so swap-prefetch stops for 5 seconds for no apparent reason.
Ingo
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