[ltp] Hard disk shutdown

[Tod Harter]

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.
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> 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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> Regards,   Ted