<div>On 8/10/07, Arjan van de Ven <<a href="mailto:arjan@infradead.org">arjan@infradead.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 23:56 +0200, dragoran wrote: > > > On 8/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: > [..] > echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > > gnome-power-manager already sets this (only to 2 but it does) when > running on battery. > also it does not use 5 to avoid to many spindown cycles laptop mode does not spin down the disk. It just clusters IO. </blockquote><div> ok </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And it's useful everywhere, not just when on battery... Let me say that again: Power saving matters everywhere, not just on battery. Just ask any sysadmin who runs a datacenter...</blockquote><div> I didn't say it does not matter I just explained what gpm does in fact I run a patched x86_64 tickless kernel on my server because power savings _do_ matter ;) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com"> fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>