Messages in this thread | | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: Periodic disk writes | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:37:59 -0400 (EDT) |
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> I have periodic disk writes that prevent me from going into power saving > mode on my harddrive, even when supposedly nothing should be happening. > Does anyone know a way to somehow list out disk read/write requests?
You need a mount option (which does not exist) that disables atime updates. Maybe also a better way for 'tail' to detect file size changes, such as 'select' or some other blocking system call.
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