on 13/08/02 23:11, Ken Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 8/13/02 9:45 PM, "Jim Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Anybody got other ideas like that? Is there a way to turn off some of the
>> memory or other things I might not be using that add to power drain and heat
>> production?
>
> You don't mention what OS you are using. I can't find a hard disk activity
> monitor to test my theory in OSX but here is what I found in OS9.
>
> For word processing I used Simple Text. I would copy Simple Text to a RAM
> Disk and launch that copy.
> At the very beginning of a session I open a Simple Text document that
> contained all of the letters, numbers and punctuation marks.
>
> `1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,./
> ~!@#$%^&*()_+QWERTYUIOP{}|ASDFGHJKL:"ZXCVBNM<>?
>
> This loaded all of these characters into RAM so it was not necessary to
> access the hard disk whenever I typed a character I hadn't typed before. I
> would then open a new blank document and spun down the hard disk. The hard
> disk would only wake up when I saved my work.
>
> Since OSX doesn't have a RAM disk feature and Simple Text has been replaced
> by Text Edit, I am at a loss if these suggestions will work. Does anyone
> know of a Hard Disk activity indicator for OSX?
Short of carefully listening, no, I don't know any hard disk activity
indicator for OS X. Maybe Norton Utilities? I think they used to have such
utility. And I know they have an OS X version. I can however tell you that
it will be very hard preventing the disk from spinning on OS X, due to
virtual memory. There are various processes that will keep the disk
spinning. And until 10.2, there are no separate settings whether you're on
AC or battery...
-Laurent.
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