[ltp] HDD access avery 5 seconds?

[Michael Gaber]

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perhaps you could try to increase the writeback-time or something, look 
at laptop-mode stuff

Richard Neill schrieb:
> 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?
> 
> In general, what diagnostic tool can I use to track HDD access? (is 
> there anything like top or netstat, but for disk access rather than cpu?)
> 
> I know it isn't this:
>  http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
> because the Load Cycle count is not changing
> and it's also not beagle (which I uninstalled).
> 
> It's probably something in userspace, but *which*?  I tried to find it 
> by doing
>   find / -mmin -2 -print | grep -v proc | grep -v sys
> but that doesn't give anything helpful either!
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Richard

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