> -----Original Message----- > From: Sy Beamont [mailto:sbeam@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:08 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: laptop_mode > > > 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. Should check out the script provided for the 2.6.x kernel. (get the patch and the documentation from -mm1 (broken-out) sources. The script is able to mount/remount (if you want) the drives and put in the commit values depending if you're running on battery or AC. (PS : I'm running it.. Though just compiled it yesterday...so limited experimenting)
