On Friday 29 November 2002 03:24, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 05:40, Michael Naumann wrote: > > For this very reason, I have ext2. But gkrellm shows me small write > > peaks every other second. I figured out, that /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > gets filled with > > (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change > > > > I asked some days ago in a separate thread, how do solve this issue, > > but noone replied. Googling around shows, that other people have the > > same problem, yet no solution is provided. > > Hi Michael, > > I had the same problem with the write peals every other second a while > ago, here some pointers in the right direction. > > From the syslog.conf manpage: > > You may prefix each entry with the minus ``-'' sign to > omit syncing the file after every logging. Note that you > might lose information if the system crashes right behind > a write attempt. Nevertheless this might give you back > some performance, especially if you run programs that use > logging in a very verbose manner. > > Note that entry means the full pathname of a log file in this > context. > > Also, you might want to add the option 'noatime' to your partition > entries in /etc/fstab. Have a look at 'man mount' for details. > > Basically, I added a '-' in front of every log file pathname inside > /etc/syslog.conf, and added 'noatime' as an option for every partition > entry in /etc/fstab, and this solved the problem. > > HTH > > Matthias
Thanx Matthias, I'll give this a try. But I doubt, this will help in my situation. The XFree86.0.log file is not mentioned in /etc/syslog.conf and -o noatime will only block writing "inode access times". But once I found out how to stop X from repeatedly telling me this nonsense, (Ok Mr. X11, my "Power status changed", but why is this your business) your tips may fill the remaining gap. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
