On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:50:25AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may be doing more writing than you realize. Also realize that disk is just really slow. You can look at /proc/meminfo as suggested in the above document to see how much in the way of outstanding writes you really have. Putting a sync in crontab should not be necessary.
Also, 'laptop-mode' has a nasty habit of turning the expire time to 10 minutes in hopes of saving power. It should only do this when running on battery, with sufficient life left. David -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list