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On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:26:57 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2006 01:18, Kevin Radloff wrote:
>> On 2/17/06, Con Kolivas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Added disabling of swap prefetching when laptop_mode is enabled.
>>
>> Why bother with this? As someone commented in a previous thread,
>> wouldn't it be better to let the laptop_mode script handle it?
>
> The discussion was about what size to make the swap prefetching. Since the
> size is not user tunable any more that is not the case. I had an offlist
> discussion with Bart Samwel about it and basically if your drive spins down
> at 5 seconds (which is what commonly happens with laptop mode) you will never
> have an opportunity to prefetch. This means swap prefetch will basically
> always spin up the drive nullifying laptop mode. On balance if you care about
> power more than anything to actually set laptop mode I suspect you wont want
> prefetch using any more power.
Would it make any sense to just delay swap prefetch execution and/or
analysis to "as soon as the HD is spun up/just before the HD is spun
down", rather than completely disabling it?
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
Hic manebimus optime
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