RE: locating the source for hdd activity
I've got my hd powering down just fine on my laptop with ext3. Use noatime,
as noted. You will also need to disable syslog marking (see
/etc/init.d/sysklogd, add "-m 0" as an option) and enable noflushd
(/etc/default/noflushd). This is with debian sid or woody, 2.4.18 kernel.
Another tip: once you are mounting noatime you can use find to hunt down any
files being modified. Leave you laptop on but untouched for 20 minutes or
so, then try (assuming only one partition):
find / -mount -type f -mmin -5
Will find everything modifed in the last five minutes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angles Puglisi [mailto:angles@aminvestments.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 10:32 AM
> To: debian users
> Subject: Re: locating the source for hdd activity
>
>
> On your laptop, mount your partition(s) with noatime, this
> reduces greatly HDD
> activity for ext3 fs.
>
> Also, that guy is working on something from rhe kernel level that
> will allow the HD
> to power down on a ext3 fs, but as of 6 months ago, this messed
> with the "sync"
> command so that was problematic.
>
> Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote*:
> >
> >On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:47, David Goodenough wrote:
> >> On Monday 18 November 2002 12:49, martin f krafft wrote:
> >> > also sprach David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>
> >> [2002.11.18.1314 +0100]:
> >> > > Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code
> >> > > that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds.
> >> >
> >> > In fact, I am. Thanks. On another day I might have figured that out
> >> > myself ;^>
> >> > This is annoying...
> >>
> >> There is some work being done (by Andrew Morton I think) to get around
> >> this problem, but generally using a journaling file system on a laptop
> >> is a Bad Idea (TM). I think some of what he has been doing appears in
> >
> >Because of battery drain?
> >
>
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