access to hard drives is "blocked" by writes to a flash drive

[deeptech71]

On 03/04/2013 04:01, Don Lewis wrote:
> The Lemming-syncer problem should have mostly been fixed by 231160 in
> head (231952 in stable/9 and 231967 in stable/8) a little over a year
> ago. The exceptions are atime updates, mmaped files with dirty pages,
> and quotas. Under certain workloads I still notice periodic bursts of
> seek noise. After thinking about it for a bit, I suspect that it could
> be atime updates, but I haven't tried to confirm that.

atime is disabled on all mount points. Subversion doesn't use mmapped files, does it? No quotas are in use.

atime is retarded anyway. There ought to be a kernel configuration (no)option SUPPORT_ATIME.