Re: "sleep" command generates hardisk activity

[Paul Eggert]

Jochen Baier <address@hidden> writes:

> nanosleep({3, 0}, NULL)                 = 0

> even a self made program with uses the "sleep() or usleep()" C
> function show the same behavier.

That's strange, but it indicates that the problem is not with
coreutils or with the C library, but with your kernel's implementation
of nanosleep.  I'd say you should pursue this with whoever maintains
your kernel.