RE: Question on bdflush

2000-11-15 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 14-Nov-2000, Zhiruo Cao écrivait : > Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even > though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers > becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working > on a notebook, and I found the perio

Re: Question on bdflush

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Zhiruo Cao] > Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically > even though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new > buffers becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. kill -STOP {your cron process} mount all ext2 filesystems with '-o noatime'

Question on bdflush

2000-11-14 Thread Zhiruo Cao
Hello, Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working on a notebook, and I found the periodic disk access is very annoying and c