On 26 Nov 2020, at 01:10, tech-lists <tech-li...@zyxst.net> wrote: > > I have a usb3-connected harddrive. dmesg shows this: > [...] > da0: <ADATA HD710 0> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device > [...] > > running current-r367806-arm64 > > I think it might be auto-spinning-down or auto-sleeping. It's > making initial interaction lag of 2-3 seconds. Is there a sysctl or something > somewhere where I can tell it to never sleep? Or is that something I'd need > to contact the manufacturer about? Or is there an alternative strategy like > tmpfs. It's not a "green" drive but I guess it might > be "green" in that it's usb3 powered. > > I have vfs.read_max=128 in /etc/sysctl.conf > zdb has ashift=12 > > In case it's relevant, the filesystem on the disk is zfs. Once > "woken up", inferaction is quick, as expected. > thanks,
I have been using the attached rc.d script for a long time now, which uses camcontrol(8)'s "apm" and "aam" commands to set drives to 'maximum performance' (aka don't try to save power by shutting down all the time). Just drop this into /usr/local/etc/rc.d, and add something like the following to your rc.conf: camperf_devices="da0 da1" camperf_enable="YES" You can also manually start the rc.d script by running: sudo service camperf start -Dimitry
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