PowerTOP tool released; time to fix the wasted laptop power on fedora?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 16:29, David Timms wrote:
> Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> >David Timms a écrit :
> >>Would this tool help one in tracing the cause of disk accesses in an 
> >>otherwise inactive/idle notebook. It seems to be about every 3 seconds 
> >>or so that the hard disk LED lights. This must make it impossible for 
> >>the hard drive to get powered down - and save power.
> >
> >echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
> >and then watching dmesg should tell you what happens.
> >Typically: some processing reading some files and updating the atimes.
> >So, look for mount -o noatime.
> OK, that works. Is there some way to tell dmesg to do the equivalent of:
> tail -f dmesg {which doesn't work} ?

watch tail dmesg

;)

Regards,
R.

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