[ltp] Hard disk shutdown

Ted Johansson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:34:59 +0200 

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I have 256 MB real memory, shouldn't this be enough?<br>
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Are there any major changes in the new Mandrake 9.0 that causes my troubles?
I have not tested noflushd with another distribution.<br>
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Regards, &nbsp; Ted<br>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ted Johansson wrote:

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    <pre wrap="">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?
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Be sure to have enough real memory, otherwise your machine will constantly
swap.

On my machine, NOFLUSHD did a quite good job after switching back to EXT2.

Best regards,

 Steph


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