'Disk Sleep' Problem

[Tom Lane]

Petrus de Calguarium <kwhiskerz at gmail.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It sounds to me like your disk drive is on the verge of failure:

> Ok, I will check into that. However, I have 3 drives, so 
> they can't all be failing at once. I do backups daily, and 
> sometimes in between, too, if there are a lot of changes.

It would only take one failing drive to produce the described
symptoms ...

> For the time being, what I did was to disable the KDE Power 
> Management (Power Devil), and the system has been running 
> smoothly for a couple of hours without the slightest hint of 
> a problem. I tend to think it is the power-saving feature 
> that is not working correctly.

Maybe, but keep those backups current.

			regards, tom lane