I encountered the same problem, but used a different solution: make /var/lib/NetworkManager a symlink to /var/run/NetworkManager (and create the corresponding directory).
/var/run is a tmpfs filesystem, so it won't generate hard disk wake-ups. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913856 Title: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Network Manager is periocially creating dirty pages that are being written back to disk and causing uncessary drive wakeups. Using SystemTap I was able to observe the following dirty pages being created on the following files 0 795 1 NetworkManager sda1 D Mon Dec 19 13:54:50 2011 timestamps 0 795 1 NetworkManager sda1 D Mon Dec 19 13:54:50 2011 timestamps.096F6V 0 795 1 NetworkManager sda1 D Mon Dec 19 13:54:50 2011 0 795 1 NetworkManager sda1 D Mon Dec 19 13:54:50 2011 timestamps.5RWD6V ..and this occurs regulary every 5 minutes. Can we either reduce the frequency of these writes or better still only write the updates when really necessary (e.g. when we close NetworkManager or the user interacts with NetworkManager which requires us to really write data back to disk). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/913856/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
