On 1/17/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Jan 2006 01:15:05 -0800 > "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling > > file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example. > > > > I run ext2 and noflushd and it works rather OK. Logfiles spin it up say > > once every hour. I believe demand for "quiet pc's" is raising, and > > minimising disc activity is one factor. > > > > >From http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ "Journaling filesystems like > > ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. > > This amounts to lousy spindown times when working off such a partition. > > There's no workaround for this." > > > > regards, David. > From 'aptitude show cpudyn' > [quote] > ... and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period > has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file > systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS. Even supports the new interface for > kernels 2.6.x > [end quote] > > It works well for me, though i had to turn of sysklod... > > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert > Einstein) > >
the script 'laptop_mode' is probably what you want to use. when i enable laptop_mode via the script, i get a value of '2' for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. I've no idea how this differs from a value of '1', however. here's the package info, as the seach is down: http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/laptop-mode-tools configure via /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf there are many settings to tweak, like hdd read ahead, time between writes, remounting of filesystems, and a whole lot more. you shouldn't need to run anything like noflushd with this enabled. -- Noah Dain "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25