I think you answered your own question. Samba (smbd) is a service. It is doing its job and ready to offer service at any time. Apparently this involves periodically accessing the disk. There is nothing wrong with this; it is normal operation. Samba won't work anyway when you are in standby, so you might as well stop it when you are done using it. PG> -----Original Message----- > From: matt [mailto:mhull1@uic.edu] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:45 AM > To: samba-technical@lists.samba.org > Subject: standby mode > > > samba 2.3.3a > redhat 7.3 > > i have three other computers connected with the redhat 7.3 on > a network. > two windows xp and one windows 98. the windows computers will go to > standby fine if not used. the linux computer will not go to standby, > something accesses the hard drive about every ten minutes. > if i unplug the > ethernet cable, the computer goes into standby after a while; > when i plug > it back, the computer wakes with in ten minutes. then i > unchecked the smb > daemon from the start up and the computer goes into standby. > how do fix > this to let the computer go into standby? > > matt >
You may be able to automate this so that before the Linux box goes into standby, it shuts down the Samba service. Unfortunately I don't know enough about Linux to tell you how to specifically perform this, although it seems possible. IRV -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Green, Paul Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:44 PM To: 'matt' Cc: 'samba@samba.org' Subject: [Samba] RE: standby mode I think you answered your own question. Samba (smbd) is a service. It is doing its job and ready to offer service at any time. Apparently this involves periodically accessing the disk. There is nothing wrong with this; it is normal operation. Samba won't work anyway when you are in standby, so you might as well stop it when you are done using it. PG> -----Original Message----- > From: matt [mailto:mhull1@uic.edu] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:45 AM > To: samba-technical@lists.samba.org > Subject: standby mode > > > samba 2.3.3a > redhat 7.3 > > i have three other computers connected with the redhat 7.3 on > a network. > two windows xp and one windows 98. the windows computers will go to > standby fine if not used. the linux computer will not go to standby, > something accesses the hard drive about every ten minutes. > if i unplug the > ethernet cable, the computer goes into standby after a while; > when i plug > it back, the computer wakes with in ten minutes. then i > unchecked the smb > daemon from the start up and the computer goes into standby. > how do fix > this to let the computer go into standby? > > matt >-- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
> standby fine if not used. the linux computer will not go to standby, > something accesses the hard drive about every ten minutes. > if i unplug the > ethernet cable, the computer goes into standby after a while; > when i plug > it back, the computer wakes with in ten minutes. then i > unchecked the smb > daemon from the start up and the computer goes into standby. > how do fix > this to let the computer go into standby? > > mattTry noflushd http://freshmeat.net/projects/noflushd/?topic_id=136 It should help your disk stay spun down. POS -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed