Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-26 Thread MrVanes
Thx everyone for the tips! In the meantime I became father of a beautiful daughter so I have something else to keep silent at the moment. Grtz. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread Adam James
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 22:40 +0100, MrVanes wrote: Can anybody tell me where to look or how to find out what process is writing to (or reading from) the HD that makes spindown in a single HD system impossible? I use a homebrewn kernel (2.6.14). Is or are there kernel option(s) that check the

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread David A.
Hello, since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. I use noflushd -n 5 to spin down hd, noflushd is aptable. I also use ext2. man syslog.conf - there are some options here to sinlence syslogd. man syslogd - use

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On 21 Dec 2005, David A. wrote: Hello, since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. network boot, booting off compact flash, booting off usb will make that box quiet, or boot a distro off /boot and no other

How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread MrVanes
Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. The problem is that both system (single HD) seem to write to (or read

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
MrVanes wrote: Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. The problem is that both system (single HD) seem to

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Arafangion
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:40, MrVanes wrote: Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. You could try

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:40:31 +0100 MrVanes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so.

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:40:31 +0100 MrVanes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so.

HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
Thorsten Manegold wrote: Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. I remember that string somewhat. I think they were talking about MARK

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed? Go to the Linux documentation project, and look up the Battey-Powered

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread thomas lakofski
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. cron, update, syslog, maybe others. update is the main problem. 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed