>
>
> [[..]
> >the write stops. I don't know yet what cause this (if it's
> >activity to swap partition, or if it's some file that the X system has to read
> >for each event, or such).
>
> Manelu,
>
> Just a stab in the dark, but: can you try mounting the /dev directory
> with noatime/nodevtime/whatever-it-is we recommend laptop users do, to
> avoid spinning-up/writing to disk to update dev times.

i always use such settings:

/dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodevmtime 1 1




>
> If nothing else the xterm is going to trigger updates to the
> last-access time on its pty, every time top refeshes the display.
>

it wouldn't make as large traffic.

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