Re: unknown io writes in 2.6.16

Con Kolivas
2006-05-16T01:22:04Z

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:12, Mark Hedges wrote:
> Cool, thanks, I'll check this out. It's actually about 12k
> every 5 seconds, not 12 bytes. Seems excessive for atime
> updates.

That just sounds like the journal updating... the default journal time is 5
seconds. Try transiently disabling the journal to see if that's it:

mount -o remount,noload /mountpoint

Don't forget to re-enable it afterwards.

You could set laptop mode if the writeouts are too frequent for your liking:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode

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