On Wednesday June 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Is there a way to find out which processes are initiating disk accesses?
>
> I've been using my laptop on the road more often recently and I want
> be able to spin down the drive when it's not needed. I downloaded
> hdparm to set the spindown time, but there are a lot of accesses going
> on that wake up the drive often.
>
> Is this update working? Can I restart update with parameters to only
> write out the cache at longer intervals? Should I also disable all
> swap space to minimize disk accesses?
You could try looking at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/linux/mobile-update.tgz/
It claims to allow the drive in a laptop to spin down but quietening
update. I have tried it, but I saw it recently and your quesiton
reminded me of it.
NeilBrown
>
> I have a P133 IBM 560 running Debian 2.0.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Justin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
