[PLUG] Constant disk activity

[Reid]

Have you tried ftrace as described in the article?


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On Friday, November 22, 2019 6:02 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:11:51 +0000
> Reid nrwahl at protonmail.com dijo:
>
> > This is what JBD2 is:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_block_device
>
> Thanks.
>
> Apparently JBD is journaling my /home partition. But why so much and so
> often? The /home folder is on an SSD, so I assume that it is not as
> harmful as if it was a traditional hard drive, but it seems excessive.
> I wonder if there is a way to get it to cool its jets. Maybe a time
> limitation, like once every half hour is enough.