Hi Kiko, On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 16/09/2004 at 08:54 +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:56:17PM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > > > On 15/09/2004 at 20:04 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote:
> But I didn't mean to be rude or anything close to that (that's why I put > a smiley there :-). Saw that one ;) > > Laptop_mode is _no_ daemon that checks for ac power or not > > periodically. > > I also know that, the daemon I was referring to, was pbbutonsd (that's > the one I use on my iBook). I don't want it to "touch" my laptop-mode > settings. The nice thing about the newer pbbuttonsd versions is that they use scripts, just delete the symlink to the laptop script from /etc/power/events.d and pbbuttonsd won't touch it anymore. The default configuration should have this on though, since it's usefull for most of the laptop users. > > > I want it running *all the time* (regardless if I'm on battery or on AC > > > adapter) because I use it to lower a bit the temperature of the hard > > > disk. > > But it decreases the lifetime of your hard disks servos due to frequent > > spin ups and spin downs. > > I also know this, I've fine tuned all the daemons so that they don't > make superfluous (cache-miss) reads that cause too frequent spin-ups. Care to post this fine tuning? Cheers, -- Guido
