From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 14:17:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DD416A41A for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:17:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mymailfloods@googlemail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7F513C48D for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mymailfloods@googlemail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1727837waf for ; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:17:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=qMEuLQ/ZrGvT80yIgBq0BmG5u6iCFOpKgs0IbMbmykc=; b=qFwBbqTzb55lVavnnjAFlZi7OCL/FB4DGDxUngoauBJsFEF3DIyTiJ8AhVcHbhSE4hQrU4t9e1iPCPh+TTuRp8GJCQRPHpT+9RKTfrhEqYOnVd0kmt1mNP+eHgCIu4cniEBmsJ8X6PC3+94TuK0+BGENpg0WX3DdnLe9IdY2Pgs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RCXuFlkGjR6uxia2KN+e45alSrPFIQamJKJu0yG7HIlBZ/y0GbOsf8cGeli+EKIuKOMPCoihSdDYaL0kX87PVxmgknymGZ8ZPH0RClbe6aQZj7akhWgf7Fjiibve7TAjYbseHL3GOuyR8nRa9sjT4P0/hWWmsao524o70W/WpJM= Received: by 10.115.32.1 with SMTP id k1mr4068343waj.1194185826807; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:17:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.53.5 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 06:17:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:17:06 +0100 From: "Thomas Hobbes" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: Smartmontools: Load_Cycle_Count increasing rapidly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:17:21 -0000 There's a way to stop the Load_Cycle_Count growing by installing ataidle from the portscollection and disabling APM with ataidle -P 0 0 0. The Load_Cycle_Count is constant after that. This reduces battery-runtime but that's much better than destroying your harddisk. Best greetings Thomas