pm-utils for F8 and Advanced power management

[Peter Jones]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) said: 
>> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:32:16AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>>
>>> Putting syslog on tmpfs by default and limiting the total size to something
>>> like 5MB would be something to evaluate for the default desktop.
>> I looked into this, and we're not actually doing too badly - our syslogd 
>> doesn't fsync() after every log entry. I'm broadly in favour of using 
>> tmpfs, though. There's an argument that certain priorities probably want 
>> to stay on disk, but otherwise we can simply sync the tmpfs to disk on 
>> shutdown or reboot.
> 
> Maybe I'm unusual, but I rarely reboot my laptop cleanly. I'm not sure I'd
> want X weeks of logs to go away.
> 
> Are there any sorts of mechanisms to do per-directory or per-file writeback
> caching, so that /var/log/ could be set to 'sync only every 15 minutes',
> or similar?

Note that we really want similar functionality for e.g. 
gnome-power-manager's battery charge history data.

-- 
   Peter