This is causing bug 59695 (the infamous laptop-killing bug), or rather, is the actual cause of the drive problem.
On my laptop, ACPID gets a battery event roughly every 15 seconds, each of these produces a write to the log file. Laptop hard drives seem to be set up for bursty I/O (a reasonably assumption for general laptop usage), so their worst-case scenario is precisely this, a single write every 15 seconds. The laptop parks after 10 seconds of inactivity, then gets woken up about 5 seconds later, and this repeats continuously whenever the laptop is idle. The simplest fix is to disable ACPID logging by adding "-l /dev/null" to the command line. Ultimately ACPID should be changed to only log errors and infrequent events. This needs to be communicated upstream - it will happen on any distro that uses ACPID and lets it log its output. I've seen it on Debian, too. -- Log output far too verbose https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31512 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
