Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:31:48 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Laptop harddisk spindown? |
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Hi!
> > > > i have a disk access _every_ 5 sec, unregarding the system load, > > > > 24x7x365, so i suppose while it doesnt hurts me, it hurts folks with power > > > > bound boxes... > > That's a kernel daemon called kupdated. Under Linux buffers are flushed > every 5 seconds (I don't like this myself, it should be triggered by > something dependant on free mem, dirty buffers, disk access, etc. but > not time, this doesn't scale. > > Under 2.2 you can try the noflushd package - perhaps it works on 2.4, I > haven't tried. It works more or less.
noflushd does work on 2.4 Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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