On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:25, Gary Hennigan wrote: > The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely > run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it > had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response > to any keys, so I powered it down. When it came back up the Debian
I regularly have my laptop crash in such a fashion. I suspect that if I turn off DMA for the hard drive then it might work better, but haven't wanted to lose the performance. Running a disk intensive task on my laptop when it's time to suspend is a sure way to kill it. I have my apm scripts run "sync" twice before trying to suspend the machine to reduce the risk of this. The ReiserFS journal takes care of this well. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
