"I have been able to lower the CPU speed by running `apm -L`." For automation purposes consider using obsdfreqd (pkg_add obsdfreqd) instead.
niedz., 27 lis 2022, 10:39 użytkownik James Johnson <mytraddr...@gmail.com> napisał: > Hi all, > > OpenBSD is amazing. But I need help in configuring it correctly as a > remote server, rarely used. > > > The main thing I am trying to do is to make it sleep every now and then to > protect resources. I am very flexible on how to do this, but have been > unable to do so. > Here's what I tried : > > 1) Make it sleep and wake up when woken up remotely > I investigated Wake On Lan, which I enabled via ifconfig. However, this > system is deployed remotely, and I have no access to other computers on the > LAN, so I am unable to make this work. > > 2) Make it sleep for a few hours and then wake up > After 3hours+ of research in man pages and the internet, I have not seen > any solution for that. > > 3) hard drives Spin down, CPU lower freq > > I have been able to lower the CPU speed by running `apm -L`. > I haven't been able to spin down the hard drives. > How important is it to manually send a command to spin down the unused > harddrives? Will it be down by the system automatically? > > I am trying to get info on the drives from the system but `atactl sd0 > checkpower ` always shows `standby` even after I have just written on the > disk. I understand this does not work because my drives are SCSI and not > ATA. > I read the man page for scsi, and I see the command to spin down hard > drives : `scsi -f /dev/rsd2c -c "1b 0 0 0 0 0"` > However, I see no command to spin them back up. Is it automatic? > How can I request information on the spin state of the drive. I am just a > little worried about starting to send low levels instructions to the hard > drive, with little understanding of it. Is it safe to send this command? > > Thanks all ! > > > PS : dmesg : I cannot share the full dmesg for security reasons, but it is > a fairly standard i386 machine, with 2 drives mounted as SCSI. > > > >
