On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If >> you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with >> USB_SUSPEND the devices not used (say, the backup disk you transfer >> to the results of your crunching every weekend) can be suspended, >> saving a little bit of power. > > No, I don't need that, having no superfluous devices connected. My weekly > backup is of the entire system to an external USB disk. Not from the > running system; I reboot to a mini system (which I call a rescue system) > each Sunday morning and backup the entire system to USB disk. So far I > haven't needed to recover more than a small section of the backup. > >> You don't leave the monitor turned on and disable the power off >> features of it, right? > > I resent the kernel's insistence on deciding when my monitor should be > switched off. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself, thank you very > much.
Well, if that's the way you feel, you obviously don't use (nor need) udisks, and take care of everything that goes on with your machine, like when to flush I/O or when to move memory pages to swap. Me? I'm lazy; the more my OS takes trivial decisions from me, the more time I have to do interesting stuff and get actual work done. That's why I use Linux/systemd/PulseAudio/bluez/GNOME; the decisions they take are usually the smart ones (from my point of view). But that's just me. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
