On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:54:29PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> [[..]
> >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?
> 
> If nothing else the xterm is going to trigger updates to the
> last-access time on its pty, every time top refeshes the display.

No it doesn't help.
The traffic on the system disk is more than just inode update: about 800K/s,
60 T/s

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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