On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 04:11:01PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:53:22PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > > > 2) About 200 xfers/sec (about 3MB/sec worth) is still going on > > to the SSD for much of the build process. It's all writes. > > All build directories (obj, dest, tools, release) are on > > a separate tmpfs, /tmp is on tmpfs, the machine isn't > > using any swap, and I am building with -U -O. By the time I > > verified all this, the disk writes were done so I couldn't > > use fstat to see what files might be being written. > > I cannot find anything relevant open in / for write while this is going > on (/ is the SSD on this system). The filesystem is mounted noatime, > nodevmtime, but I suspect it's having metadata written out when it shouldn't > anyway. I note that others have reported laptop disks spinning up recently > for no obvious reason... Maybe there a some short-lived open files? Try running it through ktrace and piping the output of kdump through the attached perl script. It'll show you all the write calls, and the path that they are writing to. eric
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