[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-10 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/9/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Alternatively, you could setup syslog-ng to send the logs to another >>machine. > >I don't know about this. I seem to have gone backwards: > > 1) If I turn off syslog-ng then it seems that the drive never spinds > up, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/9/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of > > this: > > > > pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 > > syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 > > syslog-ng(5341): di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:05:00 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > > I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default. > > > > Which package installs /etc/laptop_mode? > > Sorry, I meant /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf: I have no /etc/lap > [EMAIL PROTECTED] joe $ qpkg -v -f /etc/laptop-mode/laptop

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: >>>What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. >> >>It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/ >>laptop_mode.conf: > > > I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default. > > Whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > > What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. > > It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/ > laptop_mode.conf: I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default. Which package installs /etc/laptop_m

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: >>>myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode >>>2 >> >>Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now) >> >>on Battery it changes to 2 > > > What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. It seems to be

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: >I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of this: > > pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 > syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 > syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 > kjournald(869): WRITE block 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 >syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 >syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 >kjournald(869): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 >kjournald(869): WRITE block 9112 on hda3 >kjournald(869): WRITE block 91

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > > myth11 root # echo 1>/proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > 0 > > [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > > 2 > > Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now) > > on Battery it changes to 2 What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. -- Neil Bothwick ... "I'm simply not a ni

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > > > > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > > # (This will still disab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:31 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > > LAPTOP_MO

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > > LAPTOP_MODE_AL

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 > > > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. > > > > As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was > > watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. > > As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was > watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. you can choose to use debug more in laptop mode. #ech

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery?

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: >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