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Noflushd - Monitors disk activity

'noflushd' is a daemon that monitors disk activity, spins down disks whose idle time exceeds a certain timeout, and stops writes to them in order to keep them spun down as long as possible. It's mainly used on laptops to save power, but can also be useful to desktop users with noisy hard disks.

'noflushd' requires the kernel thread 'kupdate' found in the Linux kernel v. 2.2.11 and later. For earlier kernels, bdflush version 1.6 provides equal functionality

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://noflushd.sourceforge.net/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/noflushd/noflushd-2.7.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12257
Version 2.7 (stable) released on 2004-01-20
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User README included
Support contacts

Developer List<noflushd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/noflushd-devel
Bug Databasehttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12257&atid=112257

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • See the THANKS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/noflushd http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=12257
Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-01-20
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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