[sclug] Noisy web server

[Simon Huggins]

'ello sclug

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:29:53PM +0100, Chris Hammond wrote:
> However, being an acoustic device, it would be good to keep the HDD
> asleep. It wakes up about every 20 minutes or so and I am not sure
> what it causing the activity. I have done a find blah blah -amin and
> all that but what ever it is doesn't seem to leave a footprint (well
> everything in /proc is touched but nothing in /var.

You could mount things with noatime.  Though that then won't record the
atime :)

Also you might want to look at noflushd which I used to use successfully
with my laptop to prolong its battery life.


Simon.

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