From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:39:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107311839.21845.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiDFZqC=1qCgxFZ1xqEep4XMW6ZA3SQn6KP=FrWzhZtJ5w@mail.gmail.com>
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.
> Have you tried adding things to your mount parameters like 'noatime' or
> 'relatime'?
I've been specifying 'noatime' on all partitions for several years now; it's
automatic behaviour on my part.
> What about "data=writeback"?
I don't like the sound of the warning in the man page.
Thanks for the ideas. So far I'm inclining to the reformatting I mentioned.
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-31 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-31 15:50 [gentoo-user] jbd2 keeps spinning my disk up Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 16:05 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-31 17:39 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-07-31 18:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-31 21:29 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-31 21:40 ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-01 15:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-01 18:33 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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