* Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hm, what do you call 'journal writeout' here that would be happening > > on my system? > > Not really sure what you have in terms of fs, but here even with > nothing going on, ext3 writes to disk every 5 seconds with kjournald.
i have ext3, but it doesnt do that on my box. Also, i would have noticed any IO activity in the 'swap prefetch off' case. When i said completely idle, i really meant it ;-) so swap-prefetch stops for 5 seconds for no apparent reason. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/