Comment 80 for bug 607560

I used Eugenel's debugging method nr. 2 (find) and correlated it to the iotop outputs. The attached file includes listings of the recorded hard drive activity both while idling and while having Google Chrome open.

I think I may have identified the culprit in my case. What's common to all entries is hard drive writing activity in "/dev/ati/card0". if you look at the last intervall (15:25:30-15:26:40) you'll find that it's the only recorded change. Thus we can assume that most of the jbd2 I/O activity in the previous intervalls can be attributed to the same location.

Two questions:

1.) Any idea why I can't access "/home/ari/.gvfs" despite being in a root shell?

2.) Does anyone know what "/dev/ati/card0" is used for? Can't open the file with gedit.

Thank you in advance.