On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:13:32 -0600 Daniel Goller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | and of course then ciaranm could say "yay, one big fast write, instead | | of many little ones, all this saved time!" | but that would be just too positive, even for him
Well, yes, because Linux isn't stupid. Lots of small writes which go on in the background as opposed to one huge big write which kicks in every so often and grinds your system to a standstill until it's done :) Plus, last time I used laptop-mode (may have gotten smarter since then, of course), there was still a measurable delay in 'spin up' even if it wasn't actually spinning anything up. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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