From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 28 01:45:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA10981 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 01:45:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu (bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA10960 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 01:44:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id EAA04630; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:44:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gene@localhost) by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA03050; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:21:34 -0500 (EST) To: Babumpabajard Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrive powerdowns References: <633cb8$2bo@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> From: Gene Stark Date: 27 Oct 1997 21:21:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Babumpabajard's message of Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:42:52 -0500 Message-ID: <87yb3e7hld.fsf@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Babumpabajard 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