Re: locating the source for hdd activity
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:47, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Monday 18 November 2002 12:49, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>
> [2002.11.18.1314 +0100]:
> > > Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code
> > > that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds.
> >
> > In fact, I am. Thanks. On another day I might have figured that out
> > myself ;^>
> > This is annoying...
>
> There is some work being done (by Andrew Morton I think) to get around
> this problem, but generally using a journaling file system on a laptop
> is a Bad Idea (TM). I think some of what he has been doing appears in
Because of battery drain?
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