-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/6/2014 10:16 AM, P. Gautschi wrote: >> Are you running udisks? If so then that is the culprit. It >> polls the drive's SMART stats every 10 minutes unless the drive >> is already asleep, so if the timeout is>= 10 minutes ( which it >> seems WD drives refuse to go any lower anyhow ), then the drive >> will never go to standby. I posted some patches to fix this a >> while back on the devkit-devel mailing list but I think the >> udisks maintainer has still not gotten around to applying them. > > This is indeed the cause in my case. There are the two problems > that overlap: if a shorter time then 10 minutes is set as a standby > time, the WD disk rounds this up to 10 minutes. And Kubuntu is > using udisksd. It is started during a KDE login and never stopped > when logging out. > > Is it possible to configure udisks to not do any polling or at a > much longer interval? Or is it possible to safely disable udisksd > somehow? I'm still looking for a practical solution. You can build and install my patched version. See: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1281588 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUhgxfAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RGxYH/3x1szkPGfky9XKg+rImoVS7 1W8pWCuIww1qLXGTrbapu8+9u5DWteTaLTkvrJvG4V8Gy4NrK1AwbrvF9N9Ox1Nx aRzI3HuNaFCdqPBDkOAtcguflO2sbEr41NzWtqoW1zytVzcFOlPzOhIitTAh0BR6 ng3QuWf6DrDfLIdQoDkkYOFnaZydGKYMMhIFEMqPWrlJ760Yjrb9GUEVR3g0C2yP pVmFoL7g4lRyfw4+eXu4+XQFHtjeB+SFvn7nRBIo7ZVWYVimBjX3HmobrIwsJJJ0 nY/AVswj5gMfJAzdmDDiIEJZtzwIbnO9Ogh8Oghdl7Fxg55V/i4Krp9Kvp0GSB0= =dlgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
