That's why I made /var/log a ramdisk.

George


Jason wrote:
> 
> Wayne Conrad wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 19 June 2001, George Toft wrote:
> > > 6.  Created a script that monitors hard drive activity and dumps the
> > > output to /var/log so I can tail it to see how often the hard drive
> > > is shut down.
> > Neat stuff!  How do you monitor when the hard drive is stopped and started?
> 
> Heheh..
> Thu Jun 21 04:29:07 MST 2001 - HDC spindown
> Thu Jun 21 04:29:08 MST 2001 - HDC spinup (file accessed:
> /var/log/hdspindowns)
> 
> Another possible way to reduce heat that is seriously worthy of
> mentioning is UNDERCLOCKING THE PROCESSOR. Yep, if your task leaves
> the CPU with a load that never exceeds .05, its time to rejumper or
> reconfigure that baby for a lower clockspeed. Often, with a much lower
> clockspeed one can also use lower than normal voltages, although doing
> so in an unattended system probably isnt the brightest of ideas.
> Nevertheless, if the CPU is spec'd at 2.0v, but when you halve the
> clockspeed it can run at 0.7v without crashing (but crashed once at
> 0.6v), its probably a safe gamble to run it at 1.4v... which halves
> power consumption yet again
> 
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