[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Endolith endolith at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 20:38:42 UTC 2009


> But then it suffers from the unload cycles. Is there another
> solution to this?

Can't we just let the hard drive park and then stop writing to it for a
while so it doesn't spin back up again?  The main problem app for
writing to the hard drive is apparently Network Manager, which craps up
the system logs with useless messages several times a minute.   (Bug
#294190)

Surely there's a way to limit the frequency with which logs are written
to the disk by buffering them in memory first?

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
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