On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17:44, Simon Bell wrote: > If laptop mode is enabled, do I also need to run programs such as > noflushd to reduce disk activity or does the laptop mode do all I > need? you don't need noflushd - but you might want to add the 'noatime' and 'commit=600' values to /etc/fstab for your ext3 partitions, or the writing of the journal will spin the disk every 5sec by default.
