Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > My guess is you have all sorts of funny daemons running that peek at the > > > disk every few seconds. With LinuxPPC I had to disable things like > > > icecast, crossfire, and I think even sendmail, before disk activity > > > would drop to a sane level. > > > > I don't have any of these; would exim be a usual suspect as well? > > Guess so - anything that reads or writes files (or directories) on a > regular basis is a candidate. Set the queue run interval to 1h to take > care of this.
Well, I only run exim via xinetd, so the queue is run by a cron job. It was set to run every half an hour, I've changed it to one hour now. :) > > > lsof +D /var should show some of the usual suspects. > > > > That yields syslogd, cron, gdm, XFree86, gnome-pty-helper and lpd. I > > wouldn't suspect anyone but syslogd here, right? > > lpd doesn't check the spool dir by itself. gdm and XFree86 are a must I > assume :-) Any cron jobs that run more often than every few minutes? None AFAICS. > > > And I don't get the disk to spin down all of the time... > > > > BTW what would be considered a sane timeout for standby? Does it harm the > > disk if I set it to the minimum of 5 seconds and it gets powered down and > > back up all the time? > > It may harm the disk, but it sure doesn't save any power. I'd try half a > minute or a minute as a minimum. Okay, so that's why you have one minute in pwrctl. :) Thanks to you too for your suggestions! Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
