Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?
Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find what's causing that and at least make it more infrequent? I see nothing in /var/log/messages nor anything in dmesg. Is there somewhere else I should look? Thanks, Mark If its once per hour, its probably hourly crons running then. My laptop behaved itself when i was running linux on it - rarely spinning teh disk up at all. Can't say the same for my desktop however. :) -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 8, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mark Knecht wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find what's causing that and at least make it more infrequent? I see nothing in /var/log/messages nor anything in dmesg. Is there somewhere else I should look? Thanks, Mark If its once per hour, its probably hourly crons running then. My laptop behaved itself when i was running linux on it - rarely spinning teh disk up at all. Can't say the same for my desktop however. :) But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? Thanks, Mark signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run ps -ef and show us the output? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?
On 6/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run ps -ef and show us the output? Hi - here you go. myth11 root # ps -ef UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 init [3] root 2 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 3 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [events/0] root 4 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [khelper] root 9 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [kthread] root19 9 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [kacpid] root 100 9 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [kblockd/0] root 113 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [khubd] root 184 9 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [pdflush] root 185 9 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [pdflush] root 186 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [kswapd0] root 187 9 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [aio/0] root 773 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [kseriod] root 869 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 [kjournald] root 919 1 0 10:18 ?00:00:00 udevd root 5341 1 0 10:19 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng root 5863 1 0 10:19 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 5887 1 0 10:19 ?00:00:00 login -- mark root 5892 1 0 10:19 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux root 5893 1 0 10:19 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux root 5894 1 0 10:19 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux root 5895 1 0 10:19 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux root 5896 1 0 10:19 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux mark 5963 5887 0 10:20 tty1 00:00:00 -bash mark 5969 5963 0 10:20 tty1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx mark 5980 5969 0 10:20 tty1 00:00:00 xinit /home/mark/.xinitrc -- -nolisten tcp -br -defroot 5981 5980 3 10:20 ?00:00:03 X :0 -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 mark 5991 5980 1 10:20 tty1 00:00:01 mythfrontend mark 5992 5991 0 10:20 tty1 00:00:00 fluxbox root 5997 5863 0 10:21 ?00:00:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 root 6003 5997 0 10:21 pts/000:00:00 -bash root 6008 6003 0 10:21 pts/000:00:00 ps -ef I suppose that one possibility is that mythfrontend itself could access the disk every so often for some reason. I should check on that if nothing else explains this 1 hour behaviour. Thanks! - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What spins a drive up?
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: But as I said vixie-cron is turned off. How could hourly crons run? What else is running? Maybe you can run ps -ef and show us the output? root 5341 1 0 10:19 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng Double check your /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file. I find the following in mine: # The default action of syslog-ng 1.6.0 is to log a STATS line # to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while. # Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of # how many messages syslog-ng missed (0). stats(43200); If yours was set to 3600 for some reason, that would account for the 1 hour spinup. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
