On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:58:57AM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote: > there are lots of other apps that read and write to/from the disk. > netscape (used to?) do that; write its book mark file every 60 > seconds. yuck. killed my laptop battery fast. > First thing to do is to make sure the filesystem is mounted with the > 'noatime' option. that'll help. Also: echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
