> > It will be a process requiring the use of the filesystem, and as soon as
> > it requests it, it will spin the hard drive back up. I had the same
> > problem... It was syslogd putting --MARK-- into the logfile. your MTA is
> > another culprit, doing the mail queue every 20 minutes.
> >
>
> Or the update daemon, from the man page:
>
> The update daemon flushes the filesystem buffers at a reg
> ular interval. It has two modes of operation. By default
> it will wake up every 5 seconds and flush some dirty
> buffers. If this is not possible, it will automatically
> fall back to the traditional behavior of waking up every
> 30 seconds to call sync(2).
I found that update does not create much of a problem when I am not doing
anything on my box.. There is no flushing to do. I come home from
University, and I sit down to read email, and I quite often have to wait
for the drives to spin up before pine is started.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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