On Fri, 02 Aug 2002, Walter Hofmann wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2002, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > I am trying to spot the application which are regularly using the disk, > > waking it up from sleep and eating unnecessary my battery. Is there > > some program which could log (on a tmpfs of course ! ;-) ) any disk > > access with timestamp, file (well if it doesn't work at filesystem > > level, that doesn't hurt) and PID of the application for every disk > > access ? > > Things I remember from doing the same on my Laptop: > - use "noatime" in /etc/fstab > - Silence syslogd by adding SYSLOGD="-m 0" in /etc/init.d/sysklogd > - Change /etc/cron.d/exim to prevent exim from running the queue every > 15 minutes (mind the consequences!) > - increase the default-lease-time on the DHCP server
- adding lpd_poll_time=0 to /etc/lpd.conf Walter Hofmann [Old thread, I'm mainly posting this for the people searching the archive.]
