Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:59:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:59:36 -0500 Received: from md.hub.gts.cz ([194.213.32.136]:54145 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:59:24 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:31:48 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, Dominik Kubla , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Laptop harddisk spindown? Message-ID: <20000101003147.C35@(none)> In-Reply-To: <200111080502.fA852im17980@vegae.deep.net> <1005221273.13841.19.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <1005221273.13841.19.camel@nomade>; from xavier.bestel@free.fr on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:07:52PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. - 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/