"Jane!!! Stop this crazy thing!!!"
Mike Duffy
mduffy_lists at yahoo.com
Thu May 4 17:29:16 UTC 2006
Thx Ed.
I check out all the messages in the threads for the links you sent.
One message stated clearly: "Well, turns out the interchange service was causing constant i/o. I
stop it and the hard drives quit accessing every five seconds. Ext3 is _not_ the culprit."
The message was from 2001. I googled for "linux interchange stop", but I did not see anything
that gave me clear instructions on stopping this process. Maybe there is a script somewhere that
needs to be altered?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mike
--- Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:21 -0700, Mike Duffy wrote:
> > Can anyone please explain to me why my hard drive continuously cycles every three to five
> seconds,
> > even when I am not doing anything? This is incredibly annoying.
> >
> > I am using FC-4. Does anyone know if this bug (please don't tell me it is a feature) has been
> > fixed in FC-5? Does anyone know if there are any other Linux distributions that do not have
> this
> > bug?
> >
> > Is there any way to turn this activity off, by killing a process, etc.? If anyone can help me
> > solve this I promise to buy you your favorite beverage if you are ever in Austin.
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> If you google for ext3 and "5 seconds" you'll see that there are a
> number of things going on behind the scenes and one of them is a
> 5-second commit interval for ext3. You can set a longer commit interval
> but that doesn't solve the root cause which is one or more programs that
> keep writing (potentially very small bits of information) to the disk
> even when the system is supposedly quiescent.
>
> See the thread at:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/roswell-list/2001-October/msg00060.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/roswell-list/2001-October/msg00061.html
>
> and try google for more details.
>
> Ed
>
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