Re: hdparm

[Michael Beattie <mike@omnic.dhis.org>]

> > It will be a process requiring the use of the filesystem, and as soon as
> > it requests it, it will spin the hard drive back up. I had the same
> > problem... It was syslogd putting --MARK-- into the logfile. your MTA is
> > another culprit, doing the mail queue every 20 minutes.
> > 
> 
> Or the update daemon, from the man page:
> 
>       The update daemon flushes the filesystem buffers at a reg­
>        ular interval. It has two modes of operation.  By  default
>        it  will  wake  up  every  5  seconds and flush some dirty
>        buffers. If this is not possible,  it  will  automatically
>        fall  back  to the traditional behavior of waking up every
>        30 seconds to call sync(2).

I found that update does not create much of a problem when I am not doing
anything on my box.. There is no flushing to do. I come home from
University, and I sit down to read email, and I quite often have to wait
for the drives to spin up before pine is started.

                     Michael Beattie (mike@omnic.dhis.org)

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