Re: unwanted disk access by the kernel?

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 10:06:55 EST

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Hi!

> I've been trying to set up my laptop for mobile use. I'm having a
> problem with unwanted disk activity - even when the system is
> completely idle, there is still an occasional trickle of disk writes
> (which prevents the poor hard drive from ever spinning down).

Get noflushd.

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