On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:22:35AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Matt Price: > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:27:41AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > Incoming from Matt Price: > > > > > > > > I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power > > > > efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't > > > > use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd. > > > > Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the output of > > > > ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning back up > > > > > > I may not have your solution, but a couple of points: > > > > > > - kswapd, bdflush, klogd _may_ be your problem. > > > > if so, what should I do? They have such low process numbers I've > > always thought they were all absolutely essential. Can I mess with > > them? > > _I_ would not futz with those, but there may be other ways to do this > with tunefs (or its ilk; chattr?). > > > I don't really know what xfs is for -- occasionally I do work in a gui > > on Openoffice -- since fonts were so hard to set up I'm loathe to mess > > with them, but if in fact xfs is always unnecessary I'll just get rid > > of it. I just checked and the only other package apt wants to remove > > with it is x-window-system. Do you think that makes it safe to remove > > it? > > "xfs" == "X Font Server". It's that line in your > /etc/X11/XF86config-4 that says, "FontPath "unix/:7100"." If, as you > say at the top, you don't use X, then you don't need or want xfs. If, > as you say here, you use OOo, then you need/want X, and may need/want > xfs. sorry, should have been clearer -- MOSTLY I work in the console, esp when I want to conserve battery power; but sometimes I hook up to the outlet and use OOo; and in fact I do occasionally NEED to do this, e.g. this weekend when I need to go somewhere and then print a talk on someone else's windows computer...
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