Comment 359 for bug 59695
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| Brian Ealdwine (eode) wrote Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime | #359 |
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Apparently, laptop_mode causes issues for some people, though.
But, perhaps it would be doable to identify models that *do* have issues
with laptop_mode, and disable them? ..laptop_mode is what I'm using to
keep cool, these days.. Heads park, and stay parked for a reasonable
length of time.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:19 +0000, Baronek wrote:
> My laptop was experiencing problem in this thread.
> Now it is working quite better, hard drive can be idle for so long that it parks heads and so on - parking cycles still increses but I daresay at the sane levels - I've got 10k after half a 5 months of usage.
> So what i did?
>
> I've tried every trick that i can think of that could reduce hdd usage:
> http://
> I've inputed insane high values for everything, like thay say:
> echo 1500 > /proc/sys/
> i did:
> echo 150000 > /proc/sys/
>
> Other tricks (not only hard drive) are also worth trying.
>
> I've checked logs, disabled acpi logging as this was cousing insane high amouts of logs (some kind of error or sth), set all logs NOT to be flushed.
> I've disabled uneccessary services (cups for example - it is known to couse problems with hdd usage)
> I've disabled or make happen not so often many services from cron (updatedb anyone? hate this). I do not start cron if on battery (with laptop mode)
> Of course disks mounted with noatime, nodiratime.
> I've enabled laptop mode with aggressive pwr mgmt (insane high amouts for acceptable data loss time for the example)
> I am using B 128 on battery and 254 on ac. Hard drive spindown on battery is 30 seconds. If i do just web and IM hdd can be spined down for 10-15 minutes. (not parked, spined down)
>
> I encourege all of you to try the same - tweak your system so no hard
> disk activity is going on, this is our problem, not head parking. On
> windows it just depend how much bloatware you have i guess.
>