Every few seconds, workrave writes its stats to disk: kernel: workrave(25269): dirtied inode 1868651 (.workrave) on dm-3 kernel: workrave(25269): dirtied inode 1716993 (todaystats) on dm-3 kernel: workrave(25269): dirtied inode 1716981 (state) on dm-3 It would be sweet if somehow this could be kept in memory if an option is specified, otherwise it's close to impossible to configure a laptop to spin down its disk while workrave is running. Thanks,