I wanted to see what was the evolution of that bug between edgy, feisty and gutsy. So I took my Dell inspiron 9300 and I installed each version of ubuntu on this laptop to test this. For each ubuntu version, I did two "smartctl -a /dev/sda", one directly after the installation of ubuntu, and one 2 hours after the installation of ubuntu. I let the laptop completely idle during that 2 hours.
Here are the resulting outputs of this test : http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/bugs/edgysmartctl http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/bugs/feistysmartctl http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/bugs/gutsysmartctl Edgy gets 35 Load_Cycle_Count in 2 hours Feisty gets 27 Load_Cycle_Count in 2 hours Gutsy gets 53 Load_Cycle_Count in 2 hours I noticed that the hard drive will get something like one Load_Cycle_Count per 5/6 seconds during a certain time before the computer finally really get a more sane Load_Cycle_Count per second. The number of Load_Cycle_Count per second is clearly not a stable value. It will changes according to a lot of criterion, most probably that the insane number of Load_Cycle_Count will appears when the computer is in use more than when it's not used. -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 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
