[gentoo-user] metalog versus harddrive spindown

2004-01-11 Thread Sebastian Bergmann 
  I am using hdparm with the -S 12 option to spin down the harddrive
  after one minute of inactivity.

  However, this only happens if I don't have metalog running. This does
  not make sense to me since I don't log to the harddrive because I mount
  /var/log using tmpfs.

  Is there anything I can do about this?

  TIA,
Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] metalog versus harddrive spindown

2004-01-11 Thread Norbert Kamenicky 
Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
  I am using hdparm with the -S 12 option to spin down the harddrive
  after one minute of inactivity.
  However, this only happens if I don't have metalog running. This does
  not make sense to me since I don't log to the harddrive because I mount
  /var/log using tmpfs.
  Is there anything I can do about this?
Are u really sure tmpfs is mounted to /var/log ?

How much memory have u got ?
If swapping is in progress it can't work.
Shutdown Xfree, disable swap and check it again.
If it works, your PC probably needs more MEM.
noro

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