Incoming from Matt Price: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:27:41AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Matt Price: > > > > > > I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power > > > efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't > > > use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd. > > > Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the output of > > > ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning back up > > > > I may not have your solution, but a couple of points: > > > > - kswapd, bdflush, klogd _may_ be your problem. > > if so, what should I do? They have such low process numbers I've > always thought they were all absolutely essential. Can I mess with > them?
_I_ would not futz with those, but there may be other ways to do this with tunefs (or its ilk; chattr?). > I don't really know what xfs is for -- occasionally I do work in a gui > on Openoffice -- since fonts were so hard to set up I'm loathe to mess > with them, but if in fact xfs is always unnecessary I'll just get rid > of it. I just checked and the only other package apt wants to remove > with it is x-window-system. Do you think that makes it safe to remove > it? "xfs" == "X Font Server". It's that line in your /etc/X11/XF86config-4 that says, "FontPath "unix/:7100"." If, as you say at the top, you don't use X, then you don't need or want xfs. If, as you say here, you use OOo, then you need/want X, and may need/want xfs. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
