Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:06:47 -0500 (EST) | From | Ari Heitner <> | Subject | Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> (cc' list trimmed) [further] > I use ramfs for /tmp on my laptop -- it's very handy because it > extends the amount of the the disk had spent spun down and therefore > battery life; but writing large files into /tmp can blow away the > system or at the very least eat away at otherwise usable ram. Not > terribly desirable.
mph.
does anyone other than me think that the pm code is *way* too agressive about spinning down the hard drive? my 256mb laptop (2.2.16) will only spin down the disk for about 30 seconds before it decides it's got something else it feels like writing out, and spins back up. Spinnup has got to be more wasteful than just leaving the drive spinning...
unless the vfs code is cleaning dirty pages to disk when there's no activity, then any time the vfs writes to disk, it's got something that's really hot and shouldn't stay in ram ... if that's the case, and the frequency of such occurrences is so high, perhaps the pm code should wait a couple of times as long as it does before it spins down. basically, if there's still code doing stuff, the drive should be spinning. only spindown when we're sure the user has walked away for good :)
ari
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