Re: harddisk spindown & linux

[Jeroen <isz@dds.nl>]

Hi Thomas,

I think that syslog is trhe daemon that's bothering you. A solution might be that you mount the /var dir in a  ram disk.

grtz. Jeroen
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On 9-10-00 at 11:04 Thomas Jagoditsch wrote:

>hi all !
>
>after setting "hdparm -S 1" i realized my old enemy rose again
>(fought that on my answering-machine project and gave up ;-).
>
>something in linux does disk io every couple of minutes - so "-S 1"
>works not as expected and i found no way to prevent this.
>turning off all daemons (except syslogd and kerneld) showed no
>change, which subsystem is responsible for this ?
>
>for watching only and "stand-by" over the day it would be good to let
>the disk sleep, not only for noise-reduction but also for heat-
>reduction. the pii-350 without fan stays under 50°C but hd-off would
>make life easier, and maybe would permit to turn off the fan of the
>power-supply too.
>
>maybe someone has a good idea about this ?
>
>wbr.tja...