Package: upower Version: 0.9.5-5 Severity: normal File: upowerd
I was surprized to find that the reason my laptop disk keeps spinning up is the "upowerd" power management daemon. It is writing to its history files at least a couple times a minute. It seems to me that any program involved in power management should be more careful in its use of power. Ideally, it would only push its data to disk when the disk is already spun up, possibly with a maximum time limit of 20 minutes or when some maximum amount of buffered data is reached, whichever comes first. Alternatively, it should allow for at least several minutes of data to buffer before flushing to disk. Even better would be if whichever of the above is implemented were configurable (buffer size and time limit) in a run-time configuration file or as a command line option. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages upower depends on: ii dbus 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgudev-1.0-0 164-3 GObject-based wrapper library for ii libimobiledevice1 1.0.2-1 Library for communicating with the ii libplist1 1.3-2 Library for handling Apple binary ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-4 PolicyKit Authorization API ii libupower-glib1 0.9.5-5 abstraction for power management - ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.8-2 userspace USB programming library ii udev 164-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages upower recommends: ii pm-utils 1.3.0-3 utilities and scripts for power ma ii policykit-1 0.96-4 framework for managing administrat upower suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org