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Date:      27 Oct 1997 21:21:34 -0500
From:      Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
To:        Babumpabajard <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Harddrive powerdowns
Message-ID:  <87yb3e7hld.fsf@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
In-Reply-To: Babumpabajard's message of Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:42:52 -0500
References:  <633cb8$2bo@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>

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Babumpabajard <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> writes:

> I can not figure out why my HD is spinning up so frequently.  I set the
> time down to 1 minute, with no one logged in, only process other than
> defualt but sshd, and the system still reads.  There's 48megs of RAM, so I
> can't immagine it needs to swap.
> 
> Is there a way to determine what is using my harddrive?

The update process (syncs the disk every 30 seconds)?
There is a sysctl variable to change the default interval.

						- Gene Stark



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