The problem was that I only had mechanical hard drives back then and they would spin up all the time and make noise.
In 2001 I started to systematically search for the causes of the disk noises and document it at
https://www.agol.dk/quietlinux/
E.g., I spent a lot of time finding out that CUPS was generating a new certificate every 5 minutes. Nowadays it is a lot easier to investigate things like that. Back then I was patching the kernel.
The problem was that I only had mechanical hard drives back then and they would spin up all the time and make noise.
In 2001 I started to systematically search for the causes of the disk noises and document it at https://www.agol.dk/quietlinux/
E.g., I spent a lot of time finding out that CUPS was generating a new certificate every 5 minutes. Nowadays it is a lot easier to investigate things like that. Back then I was patching the kernel.