From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qnakn-0006oc-6I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:28:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41C9821C123; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF8221C040 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so1046750wyh.40 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:27:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=FzVMWDZB0qjuFe4+XERhDlURieYwvkStUT/FFlxxGX0=; b=CjX1FIQeVXFjEEzGqOg4ZeWwVjp9dW8vObTvXj7spcIqn1Dyl4LzOtBDnsNPYG22pq 5tr9X90hbhNPeDLmrxdzgCHKXDscou06yYNqdEMlm0ZoLXqKYVgR860ZSqIt0YWkHOEZ +S663LPs8EtpZPB16hRypEK5Z/ODww/3+PipU= Received: by 10.227.55.11 with SMTP id s11mr570722wbg.41.1312136839679; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n18sm3531915wbh.6.2011.07.31.11.27.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:27:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:26:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1435006.OTyLPogxn2@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r1; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201107311839.21845.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201107311650.29138.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201107311839.21845.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5b08f86b0e169803af0311acb496e4b6 On Sun 31 July 2011 18:39:21 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: > > However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it > > needs to write to disk. That might be metadata updates. > > What, at least once a minute? While the system's idling, waiting for > something to do? Doesn't sound likely to me. Sounds like the kind of thing cron would do - log something once a minute -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com