Re: Mysterious drive access and battery life
On Sam, 2002-12-21 at 08:59, Mark Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:04:08 +0100 (CET)
> Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu> wrote:
>
>
> > Besides the usual suspects like syslog (adding a '-' in front of the
> > file name doesn't sync the disk on every write), I did the following:
> >
> > - tune bdflush: add to /proc/sysctl.conf:
> >
> > # Tune bdflush:
> > vm/bdflush = 95 5000 100 512 500 60000 30000 20 0
> >
>
> This seemed to do the trick; The drive spins down and stays spun down.
> Well, it stays spun down until I click the mouse button. Things like
> raising a window's level and loading up a webpage in dillo or galeon
> (the latter of which is configured to have no disk cache) will also
> spin up the drive? Any ideas?
Output going to ~/.{gnome,xsession}-errors?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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