Subject: Re: Marital problems with my laptop
From: James Gibson (twistedhammer@subdimension.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 06:59:39 AKDT
IIRC, this would be bdflush and kswapd. being in kernel-space you CAN'T
stop them per se.. I'm late for class or I would go pull up some more
info, but what you want to do is disable all swap partitions, and change
how often the system syncs data to disk.. say once an hour or so, or only
when you manually run 'sync'.
James Gibson
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Hans Ehrbar wrote:
> I like to have my laptop on at my bedside, it isn't as
> noisy as the usual desktop, but the particular model I have
> (Toshiba Satellite 2805-S301) accesses the hard disk about
> every 20 seconds which makes an annoying clicking sound.
> It's like someone swallowing really loudly all the time.
> How can I find out which processes are causing these disk
> accesses so that I can stop them? (I am running Debian
> testing if that makes a difference).
>
> Hans G. Ehrbar
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