[SPARCbook] Re: idle swap zeroing..

[Chris Powell]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:15:41 -0500, Jonathan Eisch wrote:

> I have a Sparcbook, and, despite what my power management settings are
> (sol2.6) the hard disk never spins down for more than a second or two. 
> Then I read a message on the Sparc port NetBSD list, about zeroing the
> swap file (page file) durring idle time.  Might that be what is causeing
> my problem?  If so, how can I turn it off, should I want to (I'd guess
> some programs may have problems with this?).

I get this too. Disk spins down, but almost immediately spins back up
again. Never did find out why it's doing it. Can't seem to get it to
stop doing it either - kinda bad for the disk I guess.

Also never got to the bottom of the screen brightness never changing
(key presses change the hardware value but screen brightness stays
the same).


Chris.