I always keep forgetting that journaling filesystem constantly on the disk, but where can i enable CPU Frequency Scaling in the kernel, i have 2.4.20, and dit not saw it with makemenuconfig.
Patrick On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:23:43 +0200 "Jonathan C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > > The only "problem" i have with linux on a laptop is the battery life time!!. It > > seems always shorter than with windows. > > Of course, if you install a journaling filesystem (ext3 or reiserfs) > since those kind of fs write constantly on the disk, it shortens > battery life (FAT and NTFS do not have a journal). When I reverted > back to ext2 on both of my laptops, I measured that battery life was > on average the same. I might add that you might want to configure CPU > Frequency Scaling in the kernel since it enables Linux to shut down > parts of the CPU when they are are not needed. Saves battery too. > > <snip> -- "Please, Spock, do me a favor don't say it's 'fascinating'." -- Dr. McCoy "No... but it is... interesting..." -- Spock PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org
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