Hi,
I have a computer with the specs below which I want to use as a file server. FreeBSD is installed on the flash card and the 4 HDDs is in a ZFS raidz2 pool. The OS is a fresh minimal install and I only enabled sshd. Have have noticed that every 5 min (quite exactly) there is some HDD access even when the computer is idle. It is not cron because I have stopped that. Mostly I am just curious why, and if there is a way to avoid it. It does not matter much, but since I have those WD green drives with 8 second head parking it could increase the lifespan of the disk. I know there are other ways around the issue with the drives, I just think it would make sense for FreeBSD to not unnecessarily poke on my drives.
Thanks for reading and any feedback.
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Mobo: Asus m3a78-cm
CPU: Athlon II 240e 2.86 GHz
HDD: 4 x WD500AAC8 Caviar GP 500 Gbyte
NIC: Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter PCIe x1, 1 Gbit/s
Flash Adapter: Lycom IDE to CF Bridge Board, Bracket Mode, A308-V4
Flash Card: Transcend 4 Gbyte Extreme Speed 300x
I have a computer with the specs below which I want to use as a file server. FreeBSD is installed on the flash card and the 4 HDDs is in a ZFS raidz2 pool. The OS is a fresh minimal install and I only enabled sshd. Have have noticed that every 5 min (quite exactly) there is some HDD access even when the computer is idle. It is not cron because I have stopped that. Mostly I am just curious why, and if there is a way to avoid it. It does not matter much, but since I have those WD green drives with 8 second head parking it could increase the lifespan of the disk. I know there are other ways around the issue with the drives, I just think it would make sense for FreeBSD to not unnecessarily poke on my drives.
Thanks for reading and any feedback.
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Code:
uname -a
FreeBSD luggage 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 [email]root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src
/sys/GENERIC amd64
Mobo: Asus m3a78-cm
CPU: Athlon II 240e 2.86 GHz
HDD: 4 x WD500AAC8 Caviar GP 500 Gbyte
NIC: Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter PCIe x1, 1 Gbit/s
Flash Adapter: Lycom IDE to CF Bridge Board, Bracket Mode, A308-V4
Flash Card: Transcend 4 Gbyte Extreme Speed 300x