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(solved)Re: why sarge is so noisy



Thanks! I'm considering moving it to another room.

--- David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 7, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Serena Cantor wrote:
> 
> > Thanks! "most of server-related work" are very specialized program  
> > I wrote myself.
> >
> > another example: seeding in bittorrent, if memory is big enough and  
> > file being served is small
> > enough.
> 
> Since things seem to have veered off topic, I'll give the most likely  
> answer to your original question:
> 
> If you're hearing disk activity at a specific time every day, it's  
> most likely one of the periodic cron jobs.  Most of these are  
> specified by files in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, and /etc/ 
> cron.monthly.  You can disable individual jobs by removing the  
> execute bits on their scripts in those directories.  You can also  
> change when they run by editing the "run-parts" entries in /etc/crontab.
> 
> I had to do this once when I had a server in my dorm room.  The  
> server was at the foot of my bed, and it had a noisy old Kalok IDE  
> hard disk as one of its drives.  The nightly updatedb job kept waking  
> me up, so I moved it to a time when I'd already be awake. ;)
> 
> You'll never get rid of *all* of the disk activity because there's a  
> lot going on behind the scenes in a Linux system.
> 
> 
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