On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Feico Dillema wrote:

> > > spin down but never for long). About every 30 seconds there's
> > > diskaccess taking place, even if the system is idle and even when it
> > > is in single user mode. Is the ioflush thread responsible for this?
> > > And if so, is this a bug or a feature (that hopefully can be
> > > configured away somehow)?
> > 
> > Kill "update", and set update=NO in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> I killed `update' a long time ago. Note that I see this behaviour even
> in *single-user* mode with basically no other user-process running
> than the root `sh'. So, the suspiciouns in the direction of the kernel
> threads is rather strong I think.

It doesn't do that on my lapdog, 1.4W/i386. "sync" doesn't even seem
to do anything now, whereas it used to.