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Re: Disk access *every* 5 seconds?



On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:04:58PM +0100, Udo Burghardt wrote:
 
> My last update was yesterday. And now I have a periodical access to one
> harddisk (/usr) _exactly_ every 5 seconds. One can hear the heads moving
> two times with a delay of less than one second. This cycle repeats
> precisely every five seconds. Running xosview I can see the
> SCSI-Interrupt flashing once and the DISK activity states 69K for this
> cycle of measurement.

Hi,

Try mounting your harddisks '-o noatime'. (in the fstab, remount doesn't
work)

Especially if you use ReiserFS.


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