[Gllug] GNOME Disk Activity

[Nix]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Matthew Allum stated:
> So either maybe you dont have fam installed and gnome is dropping back
> to continually poll the disk :( or you are running an older ( 2.2.x ?
> ) kernel that lacks DNOTIFY support, and thus again polling is used
> instead.

... which will of course cause disk activity every five seconds or so to
update the polled directories' atimes.

> Of course I could be completely wrong and it could be nothing to do
> with gnome and infact be something like ext3, which likes to play with
> the disks quite frequently ( IIRC ).

I see no sign of more frequent disk access here; obviously the journal
gets accessed a lot, but not unless some other write elsewhere on the fs
is happening.

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