90 wakeups per second on idle ide0

Jan Ceuleers jan.ceuleers at computer.org
Thu May 15 11:33:52 PDT 2008


Jan Ceuleers wrote:

> That's surprising because the machine is diskless. The ide0 interface 
> does serve a DVD drive, but it's idle (no disk in the drive).

I should have added that stopping hal does not reduce the wakeup rate on 
ide0 significantly (it remains around 85/s).

Cheers, Jan



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