Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

["Jacob Anawalt" <jacob@cachevalley.com>]

Joachim Förster said:
> Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk
> cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)?
>

I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but if it is only reading those
files and there is enough memory that they are cached in the kernel file
cache, then perhaps the atime is being updated and that is causing the
disk to spin up?

Are you mounting with the noatime option?

Maybe there's another http proxy that doesn't require any disk access?

I am interested in following this thread. I would like to set up a similar
computer, with as few fans and spinning drives (zero would be ideal) as
possible while staying inexpensive and low-power.

-- 
Jacob
Trying out SquirrelMail