Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
Question: Is 2.6.6 the first kernel version to include laptop mode?
On May 18, 2004 5:37 pm, Joan Tur wrote:
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> Es Dimarts Maig 18 2004 21:53, en foner-debian-kde@media.mit.edu va
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> | [Please keep me CC'ed! I"m not on debian-kde. Tnx.]
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> | I've just started using Debian Sarge on a Thinkpad 240, having used
> | Debian on a desktop, and Mandrake 8.2 on an identical ThinkPad.
> | Unfortunately, it's driving me crazy, because KDE 3.2 insists on
> | writing out ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and korgacrc every five
> | minutes or less, which keeps the disk spun up no matter what else I
> | do. (I'm also running noflushd, though that's unlikely to help me
> | much because I'm also using ext3fs---noflushd's manpage remarks that
> | ext3 writes out its journals directly, hence bypassing noflushd's
> | efforts.)
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> I've successfully tryed kernel 2.6.6's "laptop mode". It delays disk
> writes, and has to be set up together with low time hd spindown & growing
> hd read ahead...
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> http://breu.bulma.net/?l3089
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