[mythtv-users] BE always busy

[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 11:30:26 Michael Watson wrote:
> On 8/11/2012 10:56 AM, Joe Henley wrote:
> > Raymond,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply!
> >
> > Just to clarify, no drives are accessed by the housekeeping or 
> > AutoExpire, and when something _does_ need to be done, only the system 
> > drive is accessed.  Did I get that right?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe Henley
> 
> There is a lot of other things preventing the system drive from spinning 
> down when the system is idle.
> 
> http://info4admins.com/tips-to-spindown-your-hard-disk-in-debian-or-ubuntu/
> 
> Regards
> Michael Watson

If it's only the syslog writing that is causing the disk to spin up, you could always put /var/log/mythtv into RAMdisc.

Mark

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