Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-28T06:32:37Z

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:06:47AM -0500, Ari Heitner wrote:

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...

use hdparm to increase the spin-down time then

--cw