On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:40:31 +0100 MrVanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make > as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD > spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. > > The problem is that both system (single HD) seem to write to (or read from) > the HD every 10-20 seconds or so. At first I thought these were kernel/log > messages being written but a little investigation revealed that this wasn't > it (timestamps, and disabling the kernel and syslog daemons). Then I > thought it might be the ext3 fs writing it's journal, but even mounting the > HD as ext2 (is changing the line in fstab enough?) made no difference. > I tried to stop every daemon alive until I was left with a barely living > system to no avail. > > Can anybody tell me where to look or how to find out what process is writing > to (or reading from) the HD that makes spindown in a single HD system > impossible? > I use a homebrewn kernel (2.6.14). Is or are there kernel option(s) that > check the filesystem that I can (should) disable like inotify or dnotify? > > > > Grtz, > Martin. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Try cpudyn. It is mainly for throttling the cpu, but has an option to spin down hdd. Works great for me. Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
