Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 18:24:13 schrieb Per Jessen:
every 30 minutes, I have the following in my log:
Nov 11 17:26:38 tvbox dbus-daemon[522]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block /sda Nov 11 17:26:39 tvbox dbus-daemon[522]: helper(pid 8929): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sda Nov 11 17:26:39 tvbox dbus-daemon[522]: helper(pid 8929): completed with exit code 0 Nov 11 17:26:39 tvbox dbus-daemon[522]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block /sda
a) what is the purpose of this, and
Well, obviously it is collecting the SMART data of your drive and making them available via udisks.
Not sure that is so obvious, but never mind - I don't see much reason for pulling those data every 30 minutes, though. If at all.
b) can/should I stop it?
Disabling polling might still work: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/638765
Yeah, I saw that one. Very subtle solution :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org