[TAG] Disk activity every 5s - but what's doing it?

[Bradley Chapman]

Mr. Moen,

On 12/7/05, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Adam (thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org):
>
> > I suspect you're using EXT3 -- the default commit time of the journal
> > is every five seconds.  Indeed, you can use the tune2fs(8), or add a
> > value to your /etc/fstab options field such that you use:
>
> Concur.  The other thing Simon's going to want to know about is "Laptop
> Mode" and the Laptop Mode Tools.   Bart Samwel has written extensively
> about this:  http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/

I must warn TAG though that laptop-mode, Centrino chipsets and ext3
can sometimes get themselves wrapped around one another - I trashed
two of my partitions and corrupted some of my /usr/lib when using
laptop-mode extensinvely a few months ago. I talked to Mr. Samwel
about it but he wasn't really able to help me much with the
information I had available.

Brad
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