Hi Fremen, Thanks for the laptop mode tip, it led to some interesting reading topics however enabling it has not solved my problem.
Cheers, Dave ---- David Hogan Hosting & Development Manager Fundamental IT - 1300 882 395 http://www.fundamentalit.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tsl-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 2 July 2005 2:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Minimise disk access > > Ehlo, > you can change the behaviour of the cache flush by changing 'sysctl -w > vm.laptop_mode=1' so the kernel doesn't flush cache to disk so often... > and with hdparm -M xxx you can change acoustic management.... > keep in mind that you can loose data if you don't flush cache and power > goes > off.. > cheers > > > Fremen > > David Hogan writes: > > > Hi List, > > > > Fresh install of TSL 2.2. > > > > I have a machine with a very loud disk. I've set it to spin it down > after 2 > > mins of inactivity via hdparm. What I want, is for that disk to remain > > completely spun down all day, until a daily cron job performs some > tasks. > > > > What I'm finding though, is that *something* is waking up the disk every > few > > hours or so, but I'm not sure what. I read in one of the laptop power > faqs > > that it might be bdflush doing something with the disk, and that I could > > control bdflush's behaviour with some command line flags - however I > cannot > > figure out how to do this with trustix. > > > > I have disabled all services except for fcron and ssh, and I have > removed > > the hourly cron job from root's crontab. I am mounting the disk as ext2 > > rather than ext3 thinking it might be something to do with the > journaling, > > but the behaviour remains. I've also disabled the swap partition. > > > > Can anyone show me how to either find out what is using the disk, or > > configure bdflush if that's likely to be the issue? I couldn't find > anything > > regarding bdflush in /etc .. > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > > ---- > > David Hogan > > Hosting & Development Manager > > Fundamental IT - 1300 882 395 > > http://www.fundamentalit.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tsl-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > tsl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
