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From: Jan De Luyck <lkml@kcore.org>
To: Kiko Piris <kernel@pirispons.net>
Cc: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>,
	Bartek Kania <mrbk@gnarf.org>,
	Simon Mackinlay <smackinlay@mail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:45:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401121345.51506.lkml@kcore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040112121956.GA8226@portsdebalears.com>

On Monday 12 January 2004 13:19, Kiko Piris wrote:
> As you don't say if you have checked it, here goes my suggestion:
>
> First of all, you should assure there's no process doing reads [*] that
> cause a cache miss (eg. daemons like postfix that check the queue every
> few seconds). You can tell this running vmstat 1 and see that bi and bo
> [**] stay at 0.

bi == 0 in 99% of the time. It caused one spinup sofar, and the disk has been 
spun op 10 times sofar.

> [*] Processes making disk writes are supposed to be "harmless", because
> laptop-mode will delay those writes to disk (that's what it's supposed
> to do! ;).

Well, it looks otherwise to me.

Jan
-- 
It's hard to keep your shirt on when you're getting something off your chest.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-10 10:38 [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1 Bart Samwel
2004-01-10 11:15 ` Dax Kelson
2004-01-12  9:45 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12  9:59   ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 12:50     ` Dax Kelson
2004-01-12 12:59       ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 15:04       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-12 11:12 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 11:22   ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 12:43     ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 13:41       ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 13:32         ` Hugang
2004-01-12 17:30         ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-01-12 12:19   ` Kiko Piris
2004-01-12 12:45     ` Jan De Luyck [this message]
2004-01-12 13:09     ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 14:02       ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-13 11:00         ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-13 11:01           ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-13 12:46             ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-13 14:21               ` Hugang
2004-01-13 17:17                 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-02-11  6:24             ` Jan De Luyck
2004-02-11 13:00               ` Micha Feigin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-12 17:07 Kai Krueger
2004-01-12 19:31 ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 20:51   ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-01-12 21:50     ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 22:51     ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-13  1:10 Kai Krueger
2004-01-13 11:58 ` Bart Samwel

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