David Vrabel wrote: > > On 22 Aug 2000, Vitux wrote: > > > What puzzles me most is: I just can't figure out what keeps spinning > > the disk?! > > I can't find any ref's to it in the logs or in cron-whatever... > > If necessary I could post some of my log-files?! > > atime updates I'd guess. The time that files were last accesses (read) is > stored in the filesystem. Hence the disk access when these are written. > > Consult the mount (?) man page for details on the noatime option. What I'm trying to understand is: what's writing files, when the machine is "idle"?! (I am beginning to grasp the fact that Linux is never really idle; there's always some cron-stuff going on...) > > > BTW: How do you empty logs? Can you just delete'em? > > Aren't all the logs rotated by daily/weekly cron jobs? There are by > default in Debian. But yes, you can just delete them. > > David Vrabel Nope, not all the logs. ppp-logs are, but not syslog, f.ex. Oh well, someone indicated that I had already done a pretty good job by reducing wake-ups to three times pr hour, so maybe I should leave it. Now if I could only get my nic working... Still Learning after 1½ year! Thanks Vitux
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