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

[Adam Porter]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:38, Endolith <endolith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?

That is strange.  I'm on Hardy using wifi and Network Manager goes
hours between log writes.  I checked $(sudo grep network /var/log/*).
I have a Dell M1330 with iwl4965 using the iwlagn 2.3.5kds module.

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