On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:24:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have set my hard drive to standby after a given time through laptop- > mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a > second or so after which it spins up again. If I issue hdparm -y /dev/ > hda the same behaviour is observed. > > I checked the logs inmediatly after this happens but found nothing > meaningful to me. As far as I can tell I have configured syslog.conf > in a way that log daemons will not sync after each minor event. I > deactivated some daemons to check whether they could be the cause > (lpd, cron, hal) but the problem persists. > > Is there a way to track down what is accessing the drive? I found a > program called blktrace which seems to be useful in this situation, > but I'd like to hear from any other suggestions. > > System is running sid with 2.6.23 custom kernel. >
You may need something like noflushd. Don't know if its on sid. When activated, it keeps the filesystem from syncing to disk unnecessarily. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
