[ltp] Getting disk to sleep

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:19:02AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush is the place I have played with, I tried with
> > YaST2, set hdparm -S...
> > 
> > All to more or less radical values. But still I hear every 5 seconds a
> > *clack clack* of the HD. So I suppose, that some process - wouldn't be
> > surprised if one of the *Kludge Desktop Environment (KDE)* does some
> > HD twiddling.
> 
> Are you using a journaling filesystem? If not, you could try noflushd.

Also mount your Linux filesystems with 'noatime'.

Marius Gedminas
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