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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>,
	Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Laptop harddisk spindown?
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:31:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000101003147.C35@(none)> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111080502.fA852im17980@vegae.deep.net> <1005221273.13841.19.camel@nomade>
In-Reply-To: <1005221273.13841.19.camel@nomade>; from xavier.bestel@free.fr on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:07:52PM +0100

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.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-10 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20011108002154.D7288@duron.intern.kubla.de>
2001-11-08  5:02 ` Laptop harddisk spindown? Samium Gromoff
2001-11-08 12:07   ` Xavier Bestel
2000-01-01  0:31     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-11-08 12:24   ` Sven Koch
2001-11-11  1:42   ` Tim Connors
2001-11-08 18:08 Thomas Hood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-07 22:51 Samium Gromoff

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