Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

[Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>]

Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:

> Doug McNaught wrote:
> > 
> > Another thing you can do, that trades off Unix semantics for battery
> > efficiency, is to mount all your filesystems with the 'noatime'
> > option.  If you don't do this, even reading a file that's in cache
> > will cause a disk write, to update the access time field of the
> > inode.  There isn't much on a typical workstation that depends on
> > 'atime' being correct, so it's probably worth doing for laptops.
> 
> What exactly is 'not much'? :)

I can't think of anything offhand.  Several people on l-k reported
using it with no problems, so it's worth a try. 

-Doug