[ltp] HDD access avery 5 seconds?

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 14:46:34 +0100, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> My TP seems to access the HDD about once ever 5 seconds, even when it  
> should be "idle". It makes a quiet tick, and the HDD light flickers.
> It's annoying if I leave the machine on while I'm asleep, and it also  
> prevents the HDD from ever spinning down to save power.
>
> Any thoughts what it could be?

Ext3 journal flush.

You can set a different journal flush interval using the "commit" mount
option.

Regards,
Tino