Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Monday 12 January 2004 13:19, Kiko Piris wrote:
> As you don't say if you have checked it, here goes my suggestion:
>
> First of all, you should assure there's no process doing reads [*] that
> cause a cache miss (eg. daemons like postfix that check the queue every
> few seconds). You can tell this running vmstat 1 and see that bi and bo
> [**] stay at 0.

bi == 0 in 99% of the time. It caused one spinup sofar, and the disk has been 
spun op 10 times sofar.

> [*] Processes making disk writes are supposed to be "harmless", because
> laptop-mode will delay those writes to disk (that's what it's supposed
> to do! ;).

Well, it looks otherwise to me.

Jan
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