[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-10 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/9/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, you could setup syslog-ng to send the logs to another machine. I don't know about this. I seem to have gone backwards: 1) If I turn off syslog-ng then it seems that the drive never spinds up, so I guess

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of this: pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 kjournald(869): WRITE block

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode 2 Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now) on Battery it changes to 2 What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. It seems to be the value

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/ laptop_mode.conf: I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default. Which package installs /etc/laptop_mode?

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5. It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/ laptop_mode.conf: I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default. Which package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:05:00 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: I have no such file, so I guess 5 must be a default. Which package installs /etc/laptop_mode? Sorry, I meant /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf: I have no /etc/lapanything [EMAIL PROTECTED] joe $ qpkg -v -f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/9/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of this: pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3 syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3 syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems that the drive still spins up for about 1 minute. How can I find what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. you can choose to use debug more in laptop mode. #echo 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. you

[gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 SNIP Since it's a desktop machine it would seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:31 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/8/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: SNIP Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? # (This will still disable laptop mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:35, Mark Knecht wrote: myth11 root # echo 1/proc/sys/vm/block_dump myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/block_dump 0 [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/block_dump [18:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What spins a drive up?

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I'm experimenting with leaving a drive turned off in a MythTV frontend. I have laptop_mode turned on with whatever it has for default settings. I have vixie-cron turned off. Once an hour it seems that the drive still