On 15 Nov 2001, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> Well, that's also to reduce the noise of my box... When I'm
> working, it will spin down since I intensively use the disks, but
> I want to leave it on when I'm AFK, and reduce both power
> consumption and noise.
I generally only have disks that aren't u
* Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down?
>
> Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the
> greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep having
> to spin up, then you are actually not sav
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:58:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) said:
Matthew> Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down?
Matthew> Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the
Matthew> greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep ha
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:58:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) said:
Matthew> Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down?
Matthew> Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the
Matthew> greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep ha
Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down?
Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the
greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep having
to spin up, then you are actually not saving anywhere as much energy as
you suspect, and you are also r
Ok, someone will probably tell you it's a bad idea, but remounting the
drives with 'noatime' in the options will cause the drives to spin up
less.
The only drawback I've noticed so far is that mutt can't figure out
when a mailbox has been updated, but for my laptop that's not really a
problem as I
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote:
What do you mean by that statement.
is this a conflict or what. I'm having roughly the same problem as
described.
Umm, they're the log daemons. The drive's spinning up because something
needs to write to the log. You'll
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:35:18PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> Before it's proposed, removing system loggers is *strongly* discouraged.
>
If you have access to remote hosts, you could set up syslog (or syslog-ng)
to use them instead of your local disk.
/Hans
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote:
> What do you mean by that statement.
> is this a conflict or what. I'm having roughly the same problem as
> described.
Umm, they're the log daemons. The drive's spinning up because something
needs to write to the log. You'll use less power and your driv
Dominique Deleris wrote:
Hello folks !
I am now in the process to reduce power consumption on my Woody
box (great, isn't it?) So far I've managed to get DPMS working so
that my monitor will go to standby mode when I'm AFK.
Now the question: I have two HD, /dev/hda and /dev/hdc that are
mounted
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
On 14 Nov 2001, Dominique Deleris wrote:
I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour?
200 ?00:00:00 syslogd
203 ?00:00:00 klogd
I'll leave it at that.
What do you mean by that statement.
is this a conflict or what. I'm having ro
> Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will
> always wake up after a few seconds of sleep !
Try just leaving a tail -f of some of the files in /var/log running in a
window on your desktop while you work. This will may be enlightening.
One particularly likely culprit: syslogd is
* Dominique Deleris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> Hello folks !
...
> Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will
> always wake up after a few seconds of sleep !
>
> I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour?
Logging probably -- your /var is on /dev/hda.
Dima
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On Wednesday 14 November 2001 12:46 pm, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will
> always wake up after a few seconds of sleep !
>
> I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour?
My guess would be a cron job, such as exim looking at the outgoing
On 14 Nov 2001, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> I can't figure out what's provoking this behaviour?
> 200 ?00:00:00 syslogd
> 203 ?00:00:00 klogd
I'll leave it at that.
--
Baloo
Hello folks !
I am now in the process to reduce power consumption on my Woody
box (great, isn't it?) So far I've managed to get DPMS working so
that my monitor will go to standby mode when I'm AFK.
Now the question: I have two HD, /dev/hda and /dev/hdc that are
mounted as follows:
Filesystem
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