Re: "sleep" command generates hardisk activity

[Phillip Susi]

Most likely this is the access timestamps being updated on the files 
being read, try adding the noatime option to your mount options to 
prevent this.

Jochen Baier wrote:
> hi,
>
> i run in a weird problem: a script which use the "sleep" command, 
> generates hardisk access every x seconds. this is really annoyning cause 
> i can hear the harddisk sound.
> an other user reported the same behavier.
>
> the script:
>
> while true; do
> sleep 3
> done
>
>
> output from "strace  sleep 3":