I agree that 1024x768 (or perhaps 800x600 to allow for window
decoration) is a reasonable default if you're running in VMware (at
least as long as adjusting the guest resolution to the host window isn't
supported).
You can check whether you're running in a virtual machine by calling
FWIW, http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm mainly
talks about *lowering* dirty_writeback_centisecs when it says it's a bad
idea to alter it (at least the kernel rule he cites as an example only
seems to be problematic if dirty_writeback_centisecs is low). Perhaps
someone
Hey Chris,
I doubt you are correct about that. These are my values:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 072 072 000Old_age Always
- 289087
I assume VALUE is going down
On my hard disk (Toshiba MK3006GAL), 255 did not give much improvement,
but 254 solved the problem. I have not tested CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT. The
temperature went up from about 44 to 47 degrees celcius (no controlled
testing environment though), which is still well within range.
Considering that my
And since I've had hard disks throwing errors within short time spans,
quite possibly because of the high load cycle count, I'll be the 50th
person to request that the importance of this issue be
increased—Wishlist is definitely too low.
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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks
