[ltp] Hard disk shutdown

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:02:27 +0200
Ted Johansson <Ted.Johansson@pobox.com> wrote:

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> 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.

Look what processes are running using ps ax and kill them one by one (I
would suggest to begin at the bottom of the list, not at the top :-) and
wait a few minutes after each kill. If the disk doesn't spin up again,
you have the guilty process.

Regards,
Tino