On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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 APM automatically sets(toggles) laptop_mode - when switched to battery (atleast on FC1) Satish
