Modifying spin-down settings

Modifying spin-down settings

Stora has a spin down daemon (spindownd) that spins down the hard drives if they are idle for 10 minutes, this is great to save power and save hard disk life, but it can be annoying for some people because when the disks are idle, it takes a couple of seconds to start working again (some hard drives take longer than others to spin up). This is how you can disable or modify the spin-down settings.

• Access your Stora as root through ssh.
• Edit the file: /etc/pwrmgr.conf, change the idletime=10 to the number of minutes after that you want your disks to spin-down, or set it to 0 to disable spin-down completely. Ignore the "enabled=false" parameter it is not used at all.

--Pippone 07:15, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

The "enabled=false/true" parameter is used to enable disable the Power Timer.

Note that if you have logging enabled and pointed to your /home dir (as it should be to save writes on the flashram) then spindown may not work, since the hard drive(s) will be regularly written to!
--Smiff