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

[Cesar Arguinzones]

I have same problem as endolith. But as long as my laptop is not having
problems, i'm not interested in
any type of logs. Is there a way to disable ALL logging in ubuntu?

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Adam Porter <launchpad at alphapapa.net>
wrote:

> 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
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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