Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:07:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:07:00 -0400 Received: from hatrack.unc.edu.ar ([170.210.248.6]:19908 "EHLO hatrack.unc.edu.ar") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:06:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:02:41 -0300 (ART) From: Marcos Dione To: Andreas Dilger cc: Subject: Re: kjournald and disk sleeping In-Reply-To: <20011022124751.C5146@turbolinux.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Hmm. I have a laptop running with all ext3 filesystems, and it has no > problems spinning down the disk. I have not done anything to increase > the flush interval of kjournald. It may be that kjournald is writing > to disk because you have things which are trying to write to disk. indeed, seems that a lot of apps like to access the disk when they're doing nothing. now I have two approaches: one is to find them all, the other is to simply stomp almos all the apps, includin servers. tonight I'll make some tests. > I have all of the filesystems on my laptop mounted noatime (this breaks > /tmp auto-cleanup, but oh well) and I have moved all of the entries from > /etc/cron.hourly to /etc/cron.daily, as they are not so critical for me. this may help too, thanks. -- "y, bueno, yo soy muy ilogico. lo que pasa es que ustedes me toman demasiado en serio" --JLB - 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/