From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 23:39:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6579216A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:39:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from MXR-5.estpak.ee (mta2.mail.neti.ee [194.126.101.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC6B43D31 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:38:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahelv2lk@hot.ee) Received: by portal.hot.ee (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E21F018776; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:38:57 +0200 (EET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: kaak kaabakas Errors-To: X-Mailer: Hot.ee webmail (http://portal.hot.ee) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-Id: <20041122233857.E21F018776@portal.hot.ee> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:38:57 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at hot.ee Subject: trying to keep hdd in power saving mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:39:01 -0000 hello, i recently built a home network server on freebsd 5.3 and am now looking for a way to keep it's hdd in power saving mode - the server is basically a pentium 166mhz machine, and the sound the hard drive is really annoying, as the machine is next to my bed. moving it is not an option - the cat5 cable alone would cost more than the machine itself did. i have already got rid of most of the logging in /etc/syslog.conf. i also commented out the */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun, */11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy and 0 * * * * root newsyslog lines in /etc/crontab as they do not serve much purpose to me, so the only one remainig constantly hdd accessing process that i can think of is cron itself. so i am looking for a way to disable cron's automatic /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs checking. is there a way other than recompiling the source code with the checking commented out? if not, where exactly can i get the source and where in it lies the checking - i have no idea of how good documentation/commentation the source might have. also, if you can think of any other processes that might be accessing the disk often, could you let me know? here is a copy of my "ps ax" to help with that: PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 ?? DLs 0:00.12 [swapper] 1 ?? ILs 0:00.06 /sbin/init -- 2 ?? DL 0:04.33 [g_event] 3 ?? DL 0:03.73 [g_up] 4 ?? DL 0:03.37 [g_down] 5 ?? DL 0:00.00 [thread taskq] 6 ?? DL 0:00.00 [kqueue taskq] 7 ?? DL 0:00.10 [pagedaemon] 8 ?? DL 0:00.00 [vmdaemon] 9 ?? DL 0:02.51 [pagezero] 10 ?? RL 218:12.32 [idle] 11 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq0: clk] 12 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq1: atkbd0] 13 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq3:] 14 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq4: sio0] 15 ?? WL 0:00.76 [irq5: ed1] 16 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq6:] 17 ?? WL 0:00.01 [irq7: ed0] 18 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq8: rtc] 19 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq9: rl0] 20 ?? WL 0:45.62 [irq10: xl1] 21 ?? WL 1:11.69 [irq11: xl0] 22 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq12:] 23 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq13:] 24 ?? WL 0:00.31 [irq14: ata0] 25 ?? WL 0:00.00 [irq15: ata1] 26 ?? WL 5:35.82 [swi1: net] 27 ?? WL 1:48.43 [swi5: clock sio] 28 ?? WL 0:00.00 [swi4: vm] 29 ?? DL 0:50.30 [yarrow] 30 ?? WL 0:00.00 [swi6:+] 31 ?? WL 0:00.00 [swi6: acpitaskq] 32 ?? WL 0:00.00 [swi6: task queue] 33 ?? WL 0:01.10 [swi6:+] 34 ?? WL 0:00.02 [swi0: sio] 35 ?? DL 0:01.37 [bufdaemon] 36 ?? DL 0:02.49 [syncer] 37 ?? DL 0:00.35 [vnlru] 38 ?? DL 0:03.84 [schedcpu] 201 ?? Rs 12:45.11 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat elion 248 ?? Is 0:00.00 /sbin/devd 272 ?? Is 0:00.26 /usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -s 285 ?? Ss 0:01.11 /usr/sbin/named -u bind -t /var/named 395 ?? Is 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/sshd 413 ?? Is 0:00.57 /usr/sbin/cron -s 476 ?? Is 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW -C 60 492 ?? Ss 0:03.73 nmbd 499 ?? Is 0:00.25 sshd: kaak [priv] (sshd) 502 ?? S 0:16.48 sshd: kaak@ttyp0 (sshd) 503 p0 Is 0:00.13 -bash (bash) 504 p0 I 0:00.12 su 505 p0 S 0:01.82 _su (csh) 772 p0 R+ 0:00.02 ps ax if there might be anything unwanted running but not showing up in the list, also your help would be helpful. thank you! ----------------------------------------- ITV - Sinu lemmiksaated internetis! http://www.itv.ee