Hi!
> > at irregular intervals of 10-30 seconds, most likely calls to sync, so
> > that the disk never gets to sleep for long. I've followed advice in the
> > various HOWTO's, e.g. modifying the line "ud::once:/sbin/update" in
> > /etc/inittab to only sync once an hour, to no avail. Watching "top", it
>
> Thats actually I think poor advice - it wont help and its asking to
> lose data
Get noflushd. (It is _also_ asking for data loose, if you write and
disk is spinned down, it will *not* bother spinning it up; you can
leave atimes on.)
Pavel
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