Re: [Banshee-List] re ducing HDD/SSD access

[omar gnlnx net]

>> On further examination, I notice that both machines periodically access
>> the
>> drive even when banshee is closed, on a period that ranges from 3 sec to
>> 20
>> secs, so maybe the problem is not Banshee (or at least not Banshee
>> alone).
>> If anyone has any ideas, they'll be greatfully received; otherwise, I'll
>> take the issue to the ubumtu forums.
>
> Perhaps `pidstat -d` could be helpful to track down what process is
> doing the IO. After that, use strace to see what the process is
> reading and/or writing.
>
> strace -e read,write some_prog
>
> Good luck, (and share your results if they are alarming) :-)
>
> -- Christian
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Have you tried PowerTOP?  http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

-Omar