On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:04:08 +0100 (CET) Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides the usual suspects like syslog (adding a '-' in front of the > file name doesn't sync the disk on every write), I did the following: > > - tune bdflush: add to /proc/sysctl.conf: > > # Tune bdflush: > vm/bdflush = 95 5000 100 512 500 60000 30000 20 0 > This seemed to do the trick; The drive spins down and stays spun down. Well, it stays spun down until I click the mouse button. Things like raising a window's level and loading up a webpage in dillo or galeon (the latter of which is configured to have no disk cache) will also spin up the drive? Any ideas? I set up /dev fs and /tmp as tmpfs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /dev/hda11 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=20M,mode=1777) Wild stuff, eh? Thanks for your time, everyone! -Mark
