well thuh Freak, I did exactly as you said but:
12:02:07 WrData 0.000294 W update
12:02:07 sync 0.832036 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.001229 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.001170 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.001275 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.001479 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.001688 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.001890 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.002072 W update
12:02:07 WrMeta[async] 0.002268 W update
I don't know, seems like these hard drive access are much more infrequent. I had to wait almost 5 minutes to get this again in fs_usage. the only problem is that this still won't sustain a hard disk spin down. I woke up this morning still to a hot hard disk
Do you think we should assume it's a hardware problem at this point? What hardware problem could it possibly be? the power manager?
Thanks so much for your help so far.
so it seems like the w update happens even after the modifications.
just fyi, I don't use a printer with my comp, so it's all good.
any more ideas? thanks.