On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:38, Endolith <endol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But then it suffers from the unload cycles. Is there another >> solution to this? > > Can't we just let the hard drive park and then stop writing to it for a > while so it doesn't spin back up again? The main problem app for > writing to the hard drive is apparently Network Manager, which craps up > the system logs with useless messages several times a minute. (Bug > #294190) > > Surely there's a way to limit the frequency with which logs are written > to the disk by buffering them in memory first?
That is strange. I'm on Hardy using wifi and Network Manager goes hours between log writes. I checked $(sudo grep network /var/log/*). I have a Dell M1330 with iwl4965 using the iwlagn 2.3.5kds module. -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
