Re: HD spindown and fs cache writeback
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:51:52PM +0100, Seth Golub wrote:
> I did all this a while back and also shut down every other process I
> don't strictly need, but no luck. The drive does spin down
> occasionally, but it always spins up again within 30 seconds. I'm
> running kernel 2.2.14.
>
> A sample from the syslog:
>
> May 28 23:39:25 jetpack noflushd[297]: Spinning down /dev/hda.
> May 28 23:39:45 jetpack noflushd[297]: Spinning up /dev/hda after 0 minutes of spindown.
>
> The fact that it appears is the syslog at all is rather suspicious.
> I wouldn't be surprised if that's the problem, that the changed syslog
> buffer gets flushed and the disk spins up to accommodate. All my logs
> are buffered, but I don't know how to get noflushd to stop syslogging.
Are you using the minus "-" sign on your filenames in syslog.conf?
Try "man syslog.conf" for more info, but basically without the "-"
syslogd syncs the disks after every log message.
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Alantro Communications lee@alantro.com
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