I confirm Ctenor's trick of inserting high values in the dirty_writeback_centisecs file.From my empiral calculations , I found the value was read as millisecs instead of centisecs.
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 08:43 +0000, Akshay Srinivasan wrote: > I was listening to my Hard drive , when running Ubuntu.I could hear the > disk heads parking , but the disk itself doesn't spin down.It spins down > -standby mode- when one runs 'hdparm -y /dev/sda'.It stayed in standby > for quite a long time.Doesn't this seem a little odd ?I thought it was > spinning down when the disk heads parked . > -- High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
