On May 05 2002, Michel Lanners wrote:
> I've recently gotten a new HD for my TiBook (40 Gig :), which makes
> relatively loud noise when moving the head.
What is the manufacturer of your HD?
My iBook2 600 combo has a 20GB HD that is quite noise in the
same situations. The manufacturer is IBM. OTOH, my Compaq has
a Toshiba HD (if I'm not mistaken) and it is quite silent,
especially compared to the iBook's (which, at first, I thought
was defective).
> At first, it did that every five seconds, which, as you can imagine,
> is unsupportable after a few minutes.
Indeed. The same reaction that I had.
> I've since tried to find what accesses the disk every five seconds, and
> come to the combination pmud with APM emulation/asapm.
That's good. I didn't investigate what was happening, but I
guess that I'll do so when I have some spare time.
> While we're at it, does anybody have other ideas to eliminate disk
> acceses? I've already done these:
>
> - switch back to ext2 from ext3 (ext3 prevents the HD from spinning
> down)
I'm using ext3 (with noatime). I'll test it with ext2 to see
the effects. But read below my comments on noatime.
> - install noflushd
Did that already.
> - tune the bdflush parameters in /proc/sys/vm
Well, I guess that its a good idea to fiddle with them also.
Disabling the swap partition is also something that occured me
under some circumstances.
> - remount with noatime while on battery
I always use noatime and I don't seem to have problems with
that. But I do notice that the HD spins down when I'm on
battery, even though I'm using ext3.
> In particular, how about devfs? I'd suppose having devfs in memory
> saves the atime/ctime/mtime changes on the /dev FS nodes (which is
> metadata to the FS, right?)?
Well, I do think that atime/ctime/mtime are metadata, but are
they changed for device nodes? I thought that device nodes
were special in respect to that (but I have never read any
code to support my claim).
> Cheers, and thanks for any comments
Ok, I know that I'm not helping, but I am just trying to see
the similarities between our systems.
[]s, Roger...
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