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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  laptop-mode outputs data to syslog that causes hard drive spinups

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