Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Why would Linux be waking up every 5 to 10 seconds to write to the disk > when I am sitting at my desktop or sitting at the login screen? (i.e. No > programs running. Only 40 total wakeups seen in powertop) Try this: yum install blktrace mount a /sys/kernel/debug -t debugfs btrace /dev/sda umount /sys/kernel/debug btrace will dump all disk activity, PID number is in column number 5. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines