Hourra! Hourra! I succeeded! I was FINALLY able to make my laptop completely silent! And have its drive spin down (and stay in sleep) for the first time of my life! ^_^
What I did: 1- make the pdflush intervall MUCH longer. 10 minutes instead of 5 seconds (developers: could I get a comment on this? why isn't something more reasonable than 5 seconds the default?). I found the trick while googling: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=244453 2- disable access time on the partitions. I went into /etc/fstab and for each partition except the swap (that means / and /home for me), I added the option noatime (for example: "defaults,noatime") 3- I *think* that disabling klogd, sysklogd, cupsys and hplip (all of which can be disabled from "gksu services-admin") helps. bonus level: if you want to test your hard drive sleeping after 5 seconds (extreme fast sleeping): ====================== sudo hdparm -S 1 /dev/sda (note that the value of S = number * 5 seconds. So if I put -S12, it will be 1 minute before the drive spins down; replace sda by whatever your hard drive is) Please give me your comments. -- hard disk being accessed every 4 sec. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17878 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
