laptop_mode

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sy Beamont [mailto:sbeam at attbi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:08 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: laptop_mode
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17:44, Simon Bell wrote:
> > If laptop mode is enabled, do I also need to run programs such as
> > noflushd to reduce disk activity or does the laptop mode do all I
> > need?
> 
> you don't need noflushd - but you might want to add the 'noatime' and 
> 'commit=600' values to /etc/fstab for your ext3 partitions, or the 
> writing of the journal will spin the disk every 5sec by default.

Should check out the script provided for the 2.6.x kernel. (get the patch
and the documentation from -mm1 (broken-out) sources.

The script is able to mount/remount (if you want) the drives and put in
the commit values depending if you're running on battery or AC.

(PS : I'm running it.. Though just compiled it yesterday...so limited
experimenting)