Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:13:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> > powertop encourages to disable polling, so it is a big point. > >> I agree with you in general, but I doubt polling every 2 or 16 seconds will >> make >> any significant difference power consumption wise. > >If it requires the drive to be spun up (due to limitations in the firmware), >it most certainly does.
This is (by far) the uncommon case. Blacklisting drives where this does happen seems reasonable. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.de...@srcf.ucam.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
