Re: unknown io writes in 2.6.16

On 5/10/06, Mark Hedges <[email protected]> wrote:

I stop every non-kernel process except syslogd, klogd and the
tty's.  Interfaces are down.  It is still in default runlevel.
But the disk keeps clicking away.

Any idea what's doing these writes?

It's most likely atime updates. Mount the partitions with noatime
option and your writes will go away.

-Dave
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