Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:46:09 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> |
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Hi!
> > at irregular intervals of 10-30 seconds, most likely calls to sync, so > > that the disk never gets to sleep for long. I've followed advice in the > > various HOWTO's, e.g. modifying the line "ud::once:/sbin/update" in > > /etc/inittab to only sync once an hour, to no avail. Watching "top", it > > Thats actually I think poor advice - it wont help and its asking to > lose data
Get noflushd. (It is _also_ asking for data loose, if you write and disk is spinned down, it will *not* bother spinning it up; you can leave atimes on.) Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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