On 05/09/2011 02:14 AM, PeterPall wrote: > You are right: Technically syslogd did cause the hard drive spin-ups. > But it did this due to the laptop-mode messages; did mount the /var/log > directory as tmpfs as a temporary measure. > No. laptop-mode will log to syslog only once, during trigger. after that, unless a new event generates, laptop-mode does not trigger. There must be something else logging to syslog then. FYI, we do alter syslog to not do an fsync.
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