<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
On 20/11/08 16:29, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4925907F.40503@hinterlands.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Alain Williams wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">You're using a journalling filesystem?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">Yes: ext3
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
There you go then.
</pre>
</blockquote>
Translation: You'll see journal commits -- a blip of disk io -- every
five seconds by default.<br>
<br>
Would this explain "continual chattering" ?<br>
</body>
</html>