 | | | hard drive access every few seconds... | hard drive access every few seconds... 2003-04-29 - By Eric Wood
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eggcups and magicdev are two bad offenders of keeps the hard drive annoyed.
A solution for eggcups (actual package name is desktop-printing) exists in
rawhide:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89696
But, looks like magicdev is still worshipping the file-polling god:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89908
magicdev is stat 'ing /etc/mtab and open 'ing /dev/cdrom every second. The
filesystem must flush the atime change every few seconds. So, how about
stat 'ing /proc/mounts instead? Why does /mnt/mtab even exist nowadays? It
doesn 't seem fair. We should create an /etc equivelant file for ever /proc
file and poll the living gonads out of the filesystem.
-eric wood
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