On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On 3 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
> > Does anyone use special bdflush settings for powersaving?
>
> I do, at work on a Compaq laptop. Since the kernel is stable, I have
> bdflush set to sync every 3600 secs or so... it's risky, but hey ;-)
>
> Also, on that installation (still Redhat 6.0) I changed the way bdflush
> is called from the init scripts to have different timeout values. In
> other words, I have a bdflush process running. Might be different on 2.4
> kernels, since you talk about some /proc thing...
>
Yeah, that's for the corresponding kernel daemons(?), kupdate etc., but
I think they have been in 2.2.x for a while. Maybe only on ppc, though...
I'm not sure what you're doing in your init scripts, but I've posted my
pwrctl-settings to set different timeouts on battery vs. mains in the
original thread. 3600 secs was definitely too risky for development kernels,
at least when there's no need to save power ;-).
Cheers,
Derek
