Periodic HD acctivity
Hi!
Since some time I have problem with no being able to get my hard drive to
sleep. I have a laptop with 512 MB ram and had this working for some time
successfully with laptop-mode and hdparm, and this despite ext3 filesystem
(commit interval at 600s). The hard drive stayed sucessfully in sleep
state for long periods, longer when the stystem was idle.
But this changed when KDE 3.2 was upgraded to 3.3 on Debian unstable. (I'm
not quite sure whether it is KDE which is doing the mess though, but
somehow my feeling tells me this...) Now my hard drive is accessed
regardless what I am doing periodicaly every minute (that is ever 60
seconds), and regardless what I have tried, it keeps spinning (if sleep
interval is set with hdparm to a value bigger then 1 minute) or is
constantly awaken to a certain time each minute (if the sleep interval is
set less then 60 seconds). Really anoying.
Is there any possibility to check, which process is accessing the hard
drive in this periodic manner?
With best regards,
- Martin
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