[ltp] Hard disk shutdown

[Ted Johansson]

I have checked the /var/log/* files, and if some program writes to the
disk, the file date/times should reflect this, but no. I am not sure how
much ram is "too little", but there is 256 MB in my machine.

Is there any other way to check what applicaitons access the disk. I
found disk I/O howto pages
(http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mukesh/hacks/spindown/x152.html) but this
requires re-building the kernel, and I am not too happy about this,
however it is an option.

Any suggestions what init.d daemons that may trigger disk access, and I
will try switching them off? I already tried turning autofs off, but no
difference.



Regards,    Ted


Tod Harter wrote:

 >On Sunday 20 October 2002 12:53 pm, Ted Johansson wrote:
 >
 >Could it be swapping for some reason? That would generally imply 
something is
 >actually happening. noflush really should take care of your problems
 >otherwise. All I can think of is that syslog/klog is writing 
synchronously to
 >the hard drive, and when you use noflush there is too little free ram 
for its
 >caching to be effective? Just a wild guess.
 >
 >
 >
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 >>T21 running MDK9.0, PCMCIA wlan network and usb-mouse. Automounting an
 >>nfs samba disk for my own file directory.
 >>
 >>I am trying to have the hard disk stop after X min of inactivity. The
 >>computer is in the living room and often just left on for long time.
 >>
 >>I changed from ext3 to ext2, added the "noatime" parameter in fstab,
 >>also tried noflush from sourceforge with 1 min (for testing purpose)
 >>timeout, but the disk still only stops for a few seconds. Same if I set
 >>a very short timeout using hdparm.
 >>
 >>Any more suggested tricks to get this working?
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>Regards,   Ted
 >>
 >>