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Re: so many applications wake up so often



On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:36:17PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:

> I have no idea what Gnome, KDE, etc. are doing to my disk -- all I know
> is that they seem to have business with it all the time, and it makes it
> very difficult for the disk to spin down.

FYI, kernel 2.6.17 has support for tracing all block device events from
userspace.

Gabor

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