Re: tuning laptop disk access

2003-08-03 Thread Kiko Piris
On 03/08/2003 at 22:45, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > This article only explains how to gather global statistics about > filesystem reads with vmstat. I know, I was mentioning it as it contains some useful tips for tuning daemons and that kind of things that are useful when you want to save battery (

Re: tuning laptop disk access

2003-08-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Kiko Piris schrieb: The "problem" in spinning down disks are disk reads. They can not be delayed (as disk writes are by laptop-mode). So, what you have to do is to tune the daemons you have on your system so they do not do unnecessary disk reads. A typical example is postfix checking the queue e

tuning laptop disk access (was: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer)

2003-08-03 Thread Kiko Piris
On 03/08/2003 at 20:23, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > I read about noatime ext3 mount options and stuff, but such an option > for my root fs doesn't feel right. What experience do you guys > have with suspending the disk (and resulting laptop-usage increase) > in a iBook/Powerbook? Journaling fs do m