pol pisze: > Most of the time spent on my laptop is reading. Often the laptop is not > powered, so that i can hear the inner disk spinning down and restarting > every dozen seconds, because many processes are running, while i am > reading. > My question is: is there a way to force processes not to read and write so > often? > Alternatively, is it safe disabling the disk spin down? > > My understanding is that time to spin down is set > in /etc/default/acpi-support, where SPINDOWN_TIME=12 > and controlled by the kde-guidance-powermanager package. Is that correct? > Why so a short time (12s) is set as the default? > > > Thank you > -- > Pol > >
Try (disable APM): hdparm -B 255 <device> <device>==/dev/sda or /dev/hda... or use laptop-mode-tools package -- Maciej Rutecki http://www.maciek.unixy.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
