Hey There Kernel-people!
I have a disk accessing question you may be able to help me with,
if I may be so bold....
I have a notebook computer, and in the interests of saving power
I am trying to get its disk to go into suspend mode (hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda,
say...) However, something seems to be continuously accessing the disk
at irregular intervals of 10-30 seconds, most likely calls to sync, so
that the disk never gets to sleep for long. I've followed advice in the
various HOWTO's, e.g. modifying the line "ud::once:/sbin/update" in
/etc/inittab to only sync once an hour, to no avail. Watching "top", it
sure looks as if various kernel-based daemons are responsible...nothing
else is running!
Can you offer me any advice? Any tweeks I can make to tell the system
that sync'ing only once every 5 minutes is o.k.?
I have the 2.4.2 kernel (older kernels behaved the same way) and
the RedHat 6.2 distribution.
Thx!
B.D.
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