Spinning down the hard drive?

[CTho9305]

I want my hard drive to spin down at night, but the computer to remain on. The problem is that for some reason, the drive gets accessed about once every five seconds or so, and as such, won't spin down. How can I find out what causes these accesses?

 

[BlueWeasel]

What software do you have running in the background?

 

[CTho9305]

I shut off mysqld, apache, and mozilla. Pretty much nothing.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
I shut off mysqld, apache, and mozilla. Pretty much nothing.

What OS? On Windows trying running filemon from sysinternals.com, that should give you an idea who's touching what...

Bill

 

[mindwarp]

FYI in linux you can type man hdparm then read about the -S option which will shut your drive down after a certain amount of inactivity.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: CTho9305
I shut off mysqld, apache, and mozilla. Pretty much nothing.

What OS? On Windows trying running filemon from sysinternals.com, that should give you an idea who's touching what...

Bill

XP. I set it to spin down after 3 minutes. Guess what? It spins down, then about 30 seconds spins back up

. I'll try poking around sysinternals, thanks

 

[CTho9305]

edit: sysinternals has "DiskMon", which maybe I can use together with filemon to see exactly when the spinup is happening and who did it. But, assuming it is the "System", what can I do to stop it?

edit2: here are the simultaneous logs. The times where the diskmon shows access are the problem accesses. Maybe someone who know more than me could take a look and interpret them? 🙂

 

[IamDavid]

Turn off everything you can then start a new filmon, hen clear he page (ctr X) .. Don't do anything for a minute or so.. You have to much goin on in your log files to determine what is causing it..

 

[CTho9305]

I think I got it 🙂. It stays off all night except when someone visits my site 😀