From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 16 20:19:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62875106564A for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from army.of.root@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57318FC1B for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:19:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from army.of.root@googlemail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so1190921fga.14 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:19:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ko+CrOIyfd3LTW7oRxF6fJ+Qa+BjiMHfRj4a8UuR43Q=; b=bHFcpyb4OuJRNk5YUComaA2Asx9o2Ny41waSMsKfRqOJGFNOixHIK6oY+J8rUuBBAt 2UtKiYzEb50amMch3oa+uuIabFW+CGmDDLQL9JPzHnKfpKTJ5s3lN8xIm7lP0TMG2aON jtrTs2pP6A/E8Qk+Cwry1HXjNzMB4co972c20= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tDpyO19vCz2nfaC01SQTXsgsRd+Brs0v+y9LdQ84ajXNnAUnIb/SOmGOlzHJ3jXR+l LWsmkJisFlKq8C5RXmLMSaYEwSlEoCUOTL402Idc0Zs5EDIvkSaHBxCuGX/f0SPa9Fj6 Dhs77xfFfnt8UOAnz1POYNBJdkZfmNrl7RcLo= Received: by 10.86.66.9 with SMTP id o9mr2945915fga.36.1237234796015; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.24? (p5486DFA6.dip.t-dialin.net [84.134.223.166]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm2705fga.0.2009.03.16.13.19.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49BEB449.9090302@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:19:21 +0100 From: "army.of.root" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081028) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andriy Gapon References: <49BE7C5A.2080103@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <49BE7C5A.2080103@icyb.net.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata: printf on every spinup/spindown? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:19:57 -0000 Andriy Gapon wrote: > I am playing with ata spindown feature and I think that it is really unnecessary > to print a message each time ata driver is going to spindown a disk or let it be > spinned up: > ad6: Idle, spin down > ad6: request while spun down, starting. > ad6: drive spun down. > ad6: Idle, spin down > ad6: request while spun down, starting. > > Especially this is not useful when "Idle, spin down" messages are going spin up > the disk via syslog logging to disk :-) > > Maybe put these under verboseboot if not drop entirely? > Hi, yah, I had some unpleasant experience with spinning down disks. That really is only useful for backup disks or similar disks which are not accessed frequently or used by any programs. :) The HDD consumes in Idle mode only something like 1W so it isnt really economic to spin it down.