On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 09:35, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > 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 > > emacs, eh? Well, that explains it... You must not have enough GB of > memory to keep from swapping parts of emacs in and out of swap space all > the time. Switch to an editor that isn't so huge (like vim :o). (OK, > if it wasn't obvious, I'm kidding. I don't want to incur the wrath of > the church of emacs :o) >
I don't go to church meetings -- it's just that I learned emacs key bindings bakc hwne I was a wee student, & find vi confusing.... > Seriously though, if you are limited on memory, and you're not running > X, I'd suggest that you not run xfs and Xprt either. done, thx > > > ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning back up > > spontaneously. Who's accessing my hard drive?? I don't have the > > slightest idea how to find out, or (even better) figure out how to > > stop it from happening. > > Another thought: Are you running a journaling file system (i.e. ext3, > reiserfs, etc...)? If so, then kjournald will be running and will > periodically write to the disk to keep its journal up to date. > I'd thought of that and checked -- it's ext2, at least according to fstab. > Cheers! thx, m
