Am 31.07.2011 17:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> Hello list,
> 
> My little Atom box's hard disk spins up every minute or so, and watching 
> iotop I see it's jbd2 that does it.
> 
> This is a kernel component, and the menuconfig help text says it's set 
> automatically by having the block layer included (and who hasn't?) together 
> with ext4.
> 
> Google shows that others have similar problems.
> 
> Before I re-create all the partitions as reiserfs - and remove ext4 from the 
> kernel - does anyone have a lighter solution?
> 

Does laptop-mode help?
app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools

Regards,
Florian Philipp