Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote:
What do you mean by that statement.
is this a conflict or what. I'm having roughly the same problem as
described.
Umm, they're the log daemons. The drive's spinning up because something
needs to write to the log. You'll use less power and your drive will
last longer if you keep whichever drive has /var/log spinning.
Unless this box is going into some embedded system or a laptop, I don't
think the fraction of a cent increase on the power bill to run a hard
disk for a month is going to make a difference in the end. Your real
power savings hit when you kill the monitor, or the entire system.
Before it's proposed, removing system loggers is *strongly* discouraged.
OK, I knew that. But I wasn't sure if there was anything there that I
didn't know.
I have changed the syslog.conf to have all the logfiles preceeded with a
'-' to buffer their output. ( "-/var/log/messages" ) When I could get
the hard drive to spin down, it greatly increased my power savings!
Do you have any suggestions on how to chase down the culprits?
