Wu Fengguang wrote:
When the laptop drive is spinned down, defer look-ahead to spin up time.
Just a n00b question: isn't readahead something that happens at read
time at the block device level? And doesn't the fact that you're reading
something imply that the drive is spun up? Or can readahead be triggered
by reading from cache?
For crazy laptop users who prefer aggressive read-ahead, here is the way:
# echo 1000 > /proc/sys/vm/readahead_ratio
# blockdev --setra 524280 /dev/hda # this is the max possible value
These amounts of readahead are absolutely useless though. I've done
measurements about a year ago, that show that at a spindown time of two
minutes you've basically achieved all the power savings you can get.
More than 10 minutes of spindown is absolutely useless unless you have a
desktop drive, because those don't normally support more than 50,000
spinup cycles. The only apps I can think of that work on this amount of
data in such a short period of time are all apps where you shouldn't be
concerned about power drawn by the hard drive. :)
--Bart
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