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mariux2
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 Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: Harddrive activity at night, causing hd to spin up again.... |
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I want my hd to spin down and remain spined down through the entire night (the pc is very quiet except for the harddrives and its in my bedroom), so i have set them to spin down. But a few times during the night they spin up again, only to write to the disk for a fraction of a second or so...
I want to figure out what diskactivity is being done at that time (and possibly kill that app at night), is it possible to get a list over the diskactivity? I want to see what files were written during the night...
(The pc is running quite a few servers (ssh, squid, samba, mysql)
(Filemon did not work as i am running 2.6) |
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El_Presidente_Pufferfish
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| check your crontab for updatedb maybe |
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mariux2
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| nope, thats not it |
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dreamer
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same problem here....
I figured it's mostly logging stuff, so take a closer look at your log configs and maybe yuo'll find a solution there. |
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mariux2
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HOHO, finally figured it out! It was cupsd writing to /etc/cups/certs/0 constantly. I turned of cupsd and now its not spinning up!
I am experimenting with making /etc/cups/certs/ a ramdrive.
btw, the command i used was "find / -cmin 30" |
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blixel
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| mariux2 wrote: | HOHO, finally figured it out! It was cupsd writing to /etc/cups/certs/0 constantly. I turned of cupsd and now its not spinning up!
I am experimenting with making /etc/cups/certs/ a ramdrive.
btw, the command i used was "find / -cmin 30" |
How did you get your hard-drives to spin down in the first place?
I've thought about editing my /etc/conf.d/local/start and adding something like:
hdparm -S 180 /dev/hda
hdparm -S 180 /dev/hdb
hdparm -S 180 /dev/hdf
But I'm not sure if that's really the right way to go about it. |
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