I've been working on this issue for some time now. I'm running a Testing system and I want to hard drive to spin down when it's idle. This worked nicely for me under Woody, but something has changed and I can't figure it out.
I run noflushd, and when I set the idle time to 3 minutes, the HDD will spin down for about 1.5 minutes before spinning back up. I've testing idle times of 5 minutes and more, but the HDD never spins down. I run a couple of scripts to see what files and directories are being accessed that are less that 5 minutes old: #!/bin/bash find / -mount -type f -mmin -5 find /usr -mount -type f -mmin -5 find /home -mount -type f -mmin -5 #!/bin/bash find / -mount -mmin -5 find /usr -mount -mmin -5 find /home -mount -mmin -5 and I always see the same files and dirs: /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr /var/spool/cups/certs /var/spool/cups/certs/0 If I stop cups and postfix, noflushd will spin the hard drive down and it'll stay down for a good long time, till I start another program or something that accesses the drive. I've been looking at the config files for cups and postfix, but I haven't figured out what I might do to stop them from hitting the HDD so often. So now, to my questions: 1. What config changes might I make to help the situation? 2. If postfix can't be changed, what might replace postfix to solve my problem? I'm not so concerned about cups since I don't need to print during the times I want the HDD to spin down, so I'll just stop it. thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
