Subject: Re: apm spinning down drives
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2000 09:25:00
In message <20000118162340.A14051@gnyf.wheel.dk>, "Soren S. Jorvang" writes:
>On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> What seems to happen is that, after 5-10 minutes, the drive will spin down,
>> and then about 5-10 seconds later, it'll spin up.

>The first things to do is to use nodevmtime for the root filesystem
>and disable cron logging so that atrun runs won't cause writes there.

Oh, that reminds me of my other question:

What do I lose if I disable daily runs?  I'm really not sure I need all the
email.

-s