Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:57:35AM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the > > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of > > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill > > the computer is to let the battery run out, then let th

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:57:35AM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the > > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of > > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill > > the computer is to let the battery run out, then let th

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:07, Yves Rutschle wrote: > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill the > computer is to let the battery run out, then let the laptop >

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Yves Rutschle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut > > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks > > plug" problem that my youngest is

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:07, Yves Rutschle wrote: > Normally you should also be able to set up so that the > laptop goes automatically to sleep when running out of > power. With this setting, the only way to actually kill the > computer is to let the battery run out, then let the laptop >

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:07:35AM +, Yves Rutschle wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut > > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks > > plug" problem th

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Yves Rutschle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut > > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks > > plug" problem that my youngest is

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:03:54PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I had not yet upgraded to test11. > 2.6.1-rc2 is already out. > , s/hdtune/hdparm/g > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly > loose power. What > dose thi

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:07:35AM +, Yves Rutschle wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut > > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks > > plug" problem th

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
6.0-test9. The drive makes > > > a noticeable whine that can be heard across the room. I'd like the noise > > > to go away, that is more > > > important than saving battery power for me. > > > > > > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I a

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:03:54PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I had not yet upgraded to test11. > 2.6.1-rc2 is already out. > , s/hdtune/hdparm/g > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly loose > power. What > dose thi

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
> > The drive makes > > > a noticeable whine that can be heard across the room. I'd like the noise to go > > > away, that is more > > > important than saving battery power for me. > > > > > > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I a

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks > plug" problem that my youngest is only recently growing out of. Normally you should al

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > If you are running low on battery you get plenty of warning to shut > down, and you _certainly_ are a lot more resilient to the "toddler yanks > plug" problem that my youngest is only recently growing out of. Normally you should al

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:03, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to > suddenly loose power. What! My laptop comes with a _built-in_ _UPS_ - only _one_ of the guys in the office with a _desktop_ machine can boast that one, _his_ UPS only runs

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:03, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to > suddenly loose power. What! My laptop comes with a _built-in_ _UPS_ - only _one_ of the guys in the office with a _desktop_ machine can boast that one, _his_ UPS only runs

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I had not yet upgraded to test11. > > , s/hdtune/hdparm/g > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly > loose power. What > dose this mean for noflushd? Are there any links or bug re

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Mike Mestnik
I had not yet upgraded to test11. , s/hdtune/hdparm/g I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly loose power. What dose this mean for noflushd? Are there any links or bug reports to track? --- Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I had not yet upgraded to test11. > > , s/hdtune/hdparm/g > > I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly loose > power. What > dose this mean for noflushd? Are there any links or bug re

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Mike Mestnik
I had not yet upgraded to test11. , s/hdtune/hdparm/g I think I am using journalling, as it's a laptop it's more likely to suddenly loose power. What dose this mean for noflushd? Are there any links or bug reports to track? --- Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
I'd like the noise > > to go away, that is more > > important than saving battery power for me. > > > > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I also tried hdtune. > > > > Look at the -M option of hdparm: > -M get/set acoustic management (0-254

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Tim Connors
I'd like the noise to go > > away, that is more > > important than saving battery power for me. > > > > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I also tried hdtune. > > > > Look at the -M option of hdparm: > -M get/set acoustic management (0-254

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Micha Feigin
gt; important than saving battery power for me. > > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I also tried hdtune. > Look at the -M option of hdparm: -M get/set acoustic management (0-254, 128: quiet, 254: fast) (EXPERIMENTAL) > __ > Do you Yahoo!?

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Thorsten Gowik
gt; important than saving battery power for me. > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I also tried hdtune. I`m using SID on my Workstation and Woody on my Laptop, both with 2.6 er Kernel everything worksfine but why do you use 2.6.0-test9? I'm using the Kernel source from http://ww

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Micha Feigin
gt; important than saving battery power for me. > > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I also tried hdtune. > Look at the -M option of hdparm: -M get/set acoustic management (0-254, 128: quiet, 254: fast) (EXPERIMENTAL) > __ > Do you Yahoo!?

noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Mike Mestnik
I have a dell8900 and I can't seam to get the drive to spin down on 2.6.0-test9. The drive makes a noticeable whine that can be heard across the room. I'd like the noise to go away, that is more important than saving battery power for me. I'm using noflushd but it has no effec

Re: noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Thorsten Gowik
gt; important than saving battery power for me. > I'm using noflushd but it has no effect, I also tried hdtune. I`m using SID on my Workstation and Woody on my Laptop, both with 2.6 er Kernel everything worksfine but why do you use 2.6.0-test9? I'm using the Kernel source from http://ww

noflushd: making/having drives spin down.

2004-01-05 Thread Mike Mestnik
I have a dell8900 and I can't seam to get the drive to spin down on 2.6.0-test9. The drive makes a noticeable whine that can be heard across the room. I'd like the noise to go away, that is more important than saving battery power for me. I'm using noflushd but it has no effec

Re: KDE3 + noflushd + call for comments

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I don't run KDE3, but... > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I >

Re: KDE3 + noflushd + call for comments

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I don't run KDE3, but... > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I >

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-03 Thread Paulo Lopes
Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobod

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-03 Thread Paulo Lopes
Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody ha

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-02 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
Maybe this will help: Add noatime to the mount options in fstab for all of the hd* system mounts. This should prevent updates to inodes whenever something touches a file (i.e. access time update). Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? > > I could

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 15:38, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? > > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and > I saw other

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-02 Thread Dwaine Gonyier
Maybe this will help: Add noatime to the mount options in fstab for all of the hd* system mounts. This should prevent updates to inodes whenever something touches a file (i.e. access time update). Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? > > I could

Re: KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 15:38, Gabor FLEISCHER wrote: > Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? > > I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. > But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and > I saw other

KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-02 Thread Gabor FLEISCHER
Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody had any answer. Gavriel

KDE3 + noflushd

2003-04-02 Thread Gabor FLEISCHER
Is there anyone who succeeded with KDE3, noflushd? I could set up my system to spin down the disks when I don't run KDE. But with KDE it always has some disk usage. I was searching in google, and I saw other people had the same problem about a year ago, but nobody had any answer. Ga

noflushd

2003-03-14 Thread Brandon Philips
I am running Woody 3.0 release 1 on a Thinkpad 600e. I have set up the noflushd default file to not spin down the disk for 5 minutes but it seems to ignore my commands always spinning down right after a disk write... I am running a 2.4.18 custom kernel, which was an upgrade from the default

noflushd

2003-03-14 Thread Brandon Philips
I am running Woody 3.0 release 1 on a Thinkpad 600e. I have set up the noflushd default file to not spin down the disk for 5 minutes but it seems to ignore my commands always spinning down right after a disk write... I am running a 2.4.18 custom kernel, which was an upgrade from the default

Re: noflushd

2002-01-06 Thread Dirk Haage
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 19:16, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:23AM +0100, Dirk Haage wrote: > > On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a > > > journaling filesystem? &

Re: noflushd

2002-01-06 Thread Dirk Haage
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 19:16, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:23AM +0100, Dirk Haage wrote: > > On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a > > > journaling filesystem? &

Re: noflushd

2001-12-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:23AM +0100, Dirk Haage wrote: > On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a > > journaling filesystem? > > > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manua

Re: noflushd

2001-12-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:46:24AM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote: > On November 21, 2001 07:38 am, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have > > a journaling filesystem? > > > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read i

Re: noflushd

2001-12-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:23AM +0100, Dirk Haage wrote: > On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a > > journaling filesystem? > > > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manua

Re: noflushd

2001-12-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:46:24AM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote: > On November 21, 2001 07:38 am, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have > > a journaling filesystem? > > > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read i

Re: noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Dirk Haage
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a > journaling filesystem? > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with reiserfs > it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd doesn&#

Re: noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Dirk Haage
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote: > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a > journaling filesystem? > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with reiserfs > it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd

Re: noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Derek Broughton
On November 21, 2001 07:38 am, Nagy Gabor wrote: > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have > a journaling filesystem? > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with > reiserfs it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd do

RE: noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Cheshire, Neil N SITI-ITDSES56
on 21 November 2001 13:38 Nagy Gabor wrote: >Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a >journaling filesystem? I believe that xfs co-operates with noflushd.

noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Nagy Gabor
Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a journaling filesystem? When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with reiserfs it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd doesn't stay off for more than half of a minute. Gee

Re: noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Derek Broughton
On November 21, 2001 07:38 am, Nagy Gabor wrote: > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have > a journaling filesystem? > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with > reiserfs it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd do

RE: noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Cheshire, Neil N SITI-ITDSES56
on 21 November 2001 13:38 Nagy Gabor wrote: >Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a >journaling filesystem? I believe that xfs co-operates with noflushd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

noflushd

2001-11-21 Thread Nagy Gabor
Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a journaling filesystem? When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with reiserfs it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd doesn't stay off for more than half of a minute. Gee -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: noflushd

2000-07-12 Thread Frank Petzold
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:16:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I have just uploaded to incoming the noflushd daemon. Which version? -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel. +41-1-724-84-42 Fax. +41-1-724-89-56 Business em

Re: noflushd

2000-07-12 Thread Frank Petzold
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:16:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I have just uploaded to incoming the noflushd daemon. Which version? -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel. +41-1-724-84-42 Fax. +41-1-724-89-56 Business em

noflushd

2000-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
I have just uploaded to incoming the noflushd daemon. Description: allow your laptop's hard disk to spin down Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from spinning them back up. The effect is

noflushd

2000-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
I have just uploaded to incoming the noflushd daemon. Description: allow your laptop's hard disk to spin down Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from spinning them back up. The effect is

noflushd woes

2000-03-26 Thread Seth Golub
Does anyone have noflushd working properly? It always spins my disk back up a few seconds after spinning it down. noflushd writes to /var/log/daemon.log on spindown. Could that be the problem? syslogd does buffer that log file (and most others). Is there any way to find out which process is

minimizing disk access & strange noflushd behavior

2000-02-07 Thread Seth Golub
noflushd (versio 1.8.1-1) spins down my hard drive even when it hasn't been idle for long, and it always spins it back up exactly 20 seconds later. I'm having a tough enough time getting other programs to stop hitting the drive and let it go to sleep. I don't need that kind o

noflushd & hdparm

2000-02-02 Thread Seth Golub
I finally have my laptop repaired. Yay! So I'm finally sorting out how to make it use less power. * I tracked down mobile-update and installed it. * I set my noatime on all my filesystems. * I installed noflushd, but now I'm wondering why. My BIOS settings let me set spindo