On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Feico Dillema wrote:

> I have been running -current on my laptop for a while and have noticed
> that since the softdep code entered NetBSD the disk of my laptop
> doesn't decently spin down anymore to save me some battery (it does
> spin down but never for long). About every 30 seconds there's
> diskaccess taking place, even if the system is idle and even when it
> is in single user mode. Is the ioflush thread responsible for this?
> And if so, is this a bug or a feature (that hopefully can be
> configured away somehow)?

Kill "update", and set update=NO in /etc/rc.conf.

> There are two more machines here running some form of netbsd-current
> that have the same problem.