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From: Sven Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>
Cc: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Laptop harddisk spindown?
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:24:10 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111081319330.26547-100000@space.comunit.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111080502.fA852im17980@vegae.deep.net>

> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:51:05AM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > >      I`m sorry folks, i dont quite recall whether i poked lkml with that,
> > >   but here it is:
> > > 	2.4.13, reiserfs
> > > 	i have a disk access _every_ 5 sec, unregarding the system load,
> > >     24x7x365, so i suppose while it doesnt hurts me, it hurts folks with power
> > >     bound boxes...
> > >         I must add that i `m experiencing this on -ac tree too, adn this is true
> > >     as far as my memory goes... (in the kernel-version context i mean)

Did you mount your partitions with "noatime"?

This (and not keeping Mozilla open) does the trick on my laptop, the
harddisk goes off after about 30 seconds and if I don't do anything local,
it stays off.

(Debian unstable, Kernel 2.4.12-ac6 currently)

c'ya
sven

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-08 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20011108002154.D7288@duron.intern.kubla.de>
2001-11-08  5:02 ` Samium Gromoff
2001-11-08 12:07   ` Xavier Bestel
2000-01-01  0:31     ` Pavel Machek
2001-11-08 12:24   ` Sven Koch [this message]
2001-11-11  1:42   ` Tim Connors
2001-11-08 18:08 Thomas Hood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-07 22:51 Samium Gromoff

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