Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 11/09/2012 02:26 AM, lee issued this missive: >> Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On 11/07/2012 01:02 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>>> ... which is sometimes a little difficult to handle when one doesn't >>>> read the manpage ;) >>> >>> Reading random manpages is a good habit. :-) >>> You often discover useful things. >>> For example, how many people did ever read the manpage for "cat"? >> >> It says -u is ignored. >> >> Which manpage(s) do I need to read to find out what makes the HDD light >> blink regularly though none of the devices connected to the controller >> the light is for is mounted? Something might be polling the DVD drives, >> and I don't want that. I can't see what it is ... > > I don't understand why that bothers you so much. The light is blinking and it's wasting resources for something I neither want nor need. The SATA controllers and the polled drives could go into sleep mode if they weren't polled, and I like to be in control of my computer and knowing what's going on. > However, depending on > your desktop, turn off the various automount options for media (CD, > DVD, USB drives, cameras, etc.). Under XFCE, it's > > Applications Menu->Settings->Removable Drives and Media > > Make sure all the mount options are turned off in all the tabs. That > may not stop all the polling...several of the kernel storage device > modules poll periodically and there's not much you can do about that. Hmm, I didn't enable any automount options, and I'm using startx to start my X-session (with fvwm). How do I turn all these options off? The kernel shouldn't be polling every second, if at all. I've had the same problem with Debian, and by modifying an udev rule I was able to turn the polling off. With Fedora, I can't even see what might be doing the polling since nothing that seems to be related shows up in the output of ps, and related udev rules don't seem to exist. So it's something hidden which does it. ,---- | -bash-4.2$ ps xua |grep udisk | root 6703 0.0 0.0 195612 3704 ? Sl Nov08 0:02 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon --no-debug | root 6719 0.0 0.0 47500 516 ? S Nov08 0:00 udisks-daemon: not polling any devices | root 16971 0.0 0.0 372556 6120 ? Ssl 12:43 0:05 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd --no-debug | lee 22582 0.0 0.0 109404 816 pts/4 S+ 20:29 0:00 grep --color=auto udisk | -bash-4.2$ `---- Is there an overview of all the services that are enabled by default after installing Fedora and what they are doing? Perhaps one of the things listed with "systemctl list-units" makes the HDD led flash, and it could be something else than DVD drives being polled. -- Fedora 17 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
