Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Why would Linux be waking up every 5 to 10 seconds to write to the
disk
when I am sitting at my desktop or sitting at the login screen? (i.e. No
programs running. Only 40 total wakeups seen in powertop)
- Seagate 320gig SATA
- XFS filesystem, relatime mount option enabled
- link_power_management_policy set to min_power
- vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs is set to 1500
I even unmounted /boot (default ext3) but that did not change anything.
Every 5 to 10 seconds I see the HDD light flash and sometimes I hear a
very faint "beeping" like the drive is waking up or powering off,
whichever it is doing.
Thanks,
Michael
If it is really the hard drive, it is probably rsyslogd doing
something with the log files. When you are logged in, the CD/DVD
drive is also checked to see if there is a disk in the drive. This
will also light the HDD light in most systems.
Mikkel
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