Too much HDD activity

[Zonei]

Yes, I did consider writing a how-to, but not yet. First I have to see what else can be done and if same results are obtained on other machines too, and what would be the differences. Feedback from users on the subject would help a lot as well.

And yes, this could be submitted in form of a feature request into bugzilla, especially after we pin-point exact config tweaks. Personally, I'd suggest two distribution setups: desktop and server. Laptop would fall under desktop because their settings are the same, with some minor differences which may aggressively extend battery life at the expense of other hardware (hdd for example).

[brunomcl]

In my HP dv6000 series laptop with OS11 there is no unusual disk activity. Only change I made from standard install plus updates was noatime and nodiratime options in ext3 partitions in fstab.