Re: Partition size

[Matthias Szupryczynski <silk_worm@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 05:40, Michael Naumann wrote:
> For this very reason, I have ext2. But gkrellm shows me small write
> peaks every other second. I figured out, that /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> gets filled with
> (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change
> 
> I asked some days ago in a separate thread, how do solve this issue,
> but noone replied.  Googling around shows, that other people have the
> same problem, yet no solution is provided.

Hi Michael,

I had the same problem with the write peals every other second a while
ago, here some pointers in the right direction.

>From the syslog.conf manpage:

   You  may  prefix  each  entry with the minus ``-'' sign to
   omit syncing the file after every logging.  Note that  you
   might  lose information if the system crashes right behind
   a write attempt.  Nevertheless this might  give  you  back
   some  performance, especially if you run programs that use
   logging in a very verbose manner.

Note that entry means the full pathname of a log file in this
context. 

Also, you might want to add the option 'noatime' to your partition
entries in /etc/fstab. Have a look at 'man mount' for details.

Basically, I added a '-' in front of every log file pathname inside 
/etc/syslog.conf, and added 'noatime' as an option for every partition
entry in /etc/fstab, and this solved the problem.

HTH

Matthias