Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-26 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:59:08PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda > > > > I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in > > /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied > > at 3781, though it is still under observation. > >

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda > > I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in > /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied > at 3781, though it is still under observatio

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-24 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > # hdparm -B255 /dev/sda I had disabled this when I wrote the OP, but had not set it in /etc/hdparm.conf. Today I did that and the Load_Cycle_Count seems steadied at 3781, though it is still under observation. When I wrote the OP I go

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > hdparm -B /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > APM_level = 128 man hdparm -B Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low value means aggressive power management and a high value means be

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-23, Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +, Curt wrote: >> Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop. >> It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm. > > dmesg reports this. I searched, but could not even find whether this has > head parking proble

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +, Curt wrote: > Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop. > It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm. dmesg reports this. I searched, but could not even find whether this has head parking problem and if so why the disk is quiet on Free

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-20, Mayuresh wrote: > > Laptop spec: > http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-15-r200-Notebook-PC-series/7486447/model/7748035/document/c04576750/ > I had a head parking/unparking/Load_Cycle_Count problem on my desktop machine (Western Digital Green Drive--known issue in linux) and dec

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:39:03PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > What does it indicate. It was 3755 when I started the system today and > growing over a few minutes. I got what it indicates. It's scary... I noticed utilities to "fix" this problem in the wd drives. I checked my drive, it is: ata1.00

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-23 Thread Mayuresh
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:16:49PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? > > > > Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few > > minutes it changed only to 3635. > > That still seems like a rather high load_cycle_count. And

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? > > Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few > minutes it changed only to 3635. That still seems like a rather high load_cycle_count. And if it is increasing every minute the

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-22 Thread Mayuresh
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 04:01:38PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? Doesn't look like. It was 3634 when I started watching and over last few minutes it changed only to 3635. > Install smartmontools. I also think think you should set up regular > dri

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > I am a new Debian user. Welcome! :-) > On a freshly purchased laptop I installed Debian jessie and I am facing a > constant recurring disk noise. Is your Load_Cycle_Count continuously increasing? You mention a laptop and at one time there was a big problem with disk drives con

Re: Recurring disk activity

2015-06-20 Thread Mayuresh
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 04:01:38PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On a freshly purchased laptop I installed Debian jessie and I am facing a > constant recurring disk noise. Further to the details in previous posts, I have nearly switched off all services except ssh and networking now. # service --statu