Re: kjournald and disk sleeping

Marcos Dione
2001-10-25T16:07:10Z

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.

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