Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:48:08 -0400 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: making a script for folding@home Message-ID: <41608FB8.1080703@ec.rr.com>
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I have folding@home and wanted to make a startup script for it. I
saw another folding client in the ports, but I wanted to tweak the
script a little to help my comp run quietly. If I could I would like to
run my comp 24x7, but I can't do it right now because I have a hard
drive that just screams its so loud and it is in my room. I got the
ataidle port, but my drive will spin back up right away or in a min or
so. I was hoping this would work, but it seems FreeBSD keeps using the
hard drive. I rememer watching shows I downloaded and hearing the hard
drive spin down(the show would fit in ram if it matters) a few months
ago while running current. Also my hardrive will still spin down while
I am in long games of starcraft in windows. I have 5.3 beta3 now and I
want to know if it is normal for the hard drive to never spin down for
other people that have acpi or apm working.
I wrote my first script to create a md, put f@h in it, and run f@h
out of ram. When I shutdown the script should cp the working dir back
to the hard drive and get rid of the md. This script will only matter
if I can get the hard disk to spin down. If you understand what I am
tring to do and have some idea please let me know what you think.
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