[ltp] noflushd

[Patrick Koehn]

I had the same problem with my 600.  When I upgraded to RH9, kupdated 
was using all of my processor (spin up, spin down, spin up, spin down). 
  Turns out that noflushd was the culprit.  Simply disabling it wasn't 
sufficient - I had to remove it from my system.

I think I'm living without spinning down the drives - not a big deal for 
me, as I'm usually running with wall power.

Hope this helps,

Patrick

Justin Georgeson wrote:
> I have 2 partitions with data, / and /boot, both formatted ext3. I 
> installed noflushd and it did power down the driver, but within 5 
> minutes it started a cycle of powering up and down with just a few 
> minutes between each. I imagine this is bad for the drive so I disabled 
> noflushd. I forget what I set the timeout to, but it was definitely 
> between 5 and 15 minutes, so it seems like it was powering down to 
> quickly. There are two things I have in consideration, reformatting 
> (perhaps just remounting) with ext2 in case journaling is screwing with 
> noflushd, and adding memory. Right now I'm running debian unstable using 
> gnome, and only have 128 MB of memory, so it swaps quite a bit.
>