"Jane!!! Stop this crazy thing!!!"

[Filippos Klironomos]

The commit interval to sync the buffers is 5sec if I am not mistaken. So
every five seconds the kernel
empties the buffers and writes their data on disk. You can change that by
passing the 'commit=#sec'
argument on the mount options in /etc/fstab.

Filippos

On 5/4/06, jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:21 pm, Mike Duffy wrote:
> > Can anyone please explain to me why my hard drive continuously cycles
> every
> > three to five seconds, even when I am not doing anything?  This is
> > incredibly annoying.
> >
> > I am using FC-4.  Does anyone know if this bug (please don't tell me it
> is
> > a feature) has been fixed in FC-5?  Does anyone know if there are any
> other
> > Linux distributions that do not have this bug?
> >
> > Is there any way to turn this activity off, by killing a process,
> etc.?  If
> > anyone can help me solve this I promise to buy you your favorite
> beverage
> > if you are ever in Austin.
> >
> > Thx!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > FYI:  The subject of this email comes from the cartoon series, "The
> > Jetsons."
> >
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