Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-14 Thread wzab
green wrote at Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:22:32 -0500 > wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500: >> A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started >> to behave strange. >> When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks >> starts to click every few minutes, and afte

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 14 apr 12, 12:29:57, wzab wrote: > > So the problem is why there is a difference between work on local keyboard > (no unloading/loading due to entering the idle state) and remote work? > I'd like to prevent the disk from entering the idle state, when working > remotely... Probably the ke

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-14 Thread wzab
>> to find how often the head get unloaded, I have completely prevented >> this effect to occur. >Notice that you have 2 problems: >1- Unloading. >2- Reloading. >From where I stand, the unloading is normal, harmless, and even >desirable so the real problem is: why is it re-loaded every 3 minutes?

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, green wrote: > wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500: > > A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started > > to behave strange. > > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks > > starts to click every few minutes, and after each cl

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread green
wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500: > A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started > to behave strange. > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks > starts to click every few minutes, and after each click the > Load_Cycle_Count (as reported by s

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> to find how often the head get unloaded, I have completely prevented >> this effect to occur. Notice that you have 2 problems: 1- Unloading. 2- Reloading. >From where I stand, the unloading is normal, harmless, and even desirable so the real problem is: why is it re-loaded every 3 minutes? I'd

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, wzab wrote: > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks > starts to click every few minutes, and after each click the > Load_Cycle_Count (as reported by smartctl -a /dev/sda ) increases by > 1. ... > I have found the website: > http://www.thinkwik