On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Michel Lanners wrote:
On 3 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
Does anyone use special bdflush settings for powersaving?
I do, at work on a Compaq laptop. Since the kernel is stable, I have
bdflush set to sync every 3600 secs or so... it's
On 1 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
Any suggestions how I can find out what accesses my disk every few seconds and
thus keeps me from powering it down?
Replying late, and I didn't read all of the remaining messages in the
thread, but have a look at the
On 3 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
I didn't tweak any bdflush parameters (tried that before disabling the
crazy services and it didn't help).
Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean?
look in
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Steven Hanley wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:44:35AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean?
look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl/* notably vm.txt for the bdflush
thing.
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Derek Homeier wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Reducing the speed of your CD-ROM helps as well. I know a friend who
played
MP3s from CD on his notebook. Everytime he started playing a new song his
zillion-speed CD-ROM
My guess is you have all sorts of funny daemons running that peek at the
disk every few seconds. With LinuxPPC I had to disable things like
icecast, crossfire, and I think even sendmail, before disk activity would
drop to a sane level.
I don't have any of these; would exim be a usual
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
BTW what would be considered a sane timeout for standby? Does it harm the
disk
if I set it to the minimum of 5 seconds and it gets powered down and back up
all the time?
It may harm the disk, but it sure doesn't save any power. I'd try half a
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:27:18AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
lpd doesn't check the spool dir by itself. gdm and XFree86 are a must I
assume :-) Any cron jobs that run more often than every few minutes?
does cron not check /etc/cron.d often? i know you can drop files in
there and cron
Michael Schmitz wrote:
My guess is you have all sorts of funny daemons running that peek at the
disk every few seconds. With LinuxPPC I had to disable things like
icecast, crossfire, and I think even sendmail, before disk activity
would drop to a sane level.
I don't have any of
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
BTW what would be considered a sane timeout for standby? Does it harm
the disk if I set it to the minimum of 5 seconds and it gets powered
down and back up all the time?
It may harm the disk, but it sure doesn't
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ethan Benson wrote:
does cron not check /etc/cron.d often? i know you can drop files in
there and cron will use them without restarting it so it must check
this somehow...
According to the manpage it does so every minute, and I haven't found a
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:59:08AM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote:
agreed, it seems I will get about 3 and a half to four hours with out taking
any precautions, still it would be nice to be able to get over 5 hours like
macos allegedly (so claimed in apple advertiisng and such) can on the
agreed, it seems I will get about 3 and a half to four hours with out taking
any precautions, still it would be nice to be able to get over 5 hours like
macos allegedly (so claimed in apple advertiisng and such) can on the
machine.
if you read the fine print on such advertising you
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Any suggestions how I can find out what accesses my disk every few seconds
and thus keeps me from powering it down?
My guess is you have all sorts of funny daemons running that peek at the
disk every few seconds. With LinuxPPC I had to disable things like
icecast,
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:44:35AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
Michael Schmitz wrote:
I didn't tweak any bdflush parameters (tried that before disabling the crazy
services and it didn't help).
Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean?
look in
Steven Hanley wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:44:35AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
Michael Schmitz wrote:
I didn't tweak any bdflush parameters (tried that before disabling the
crazy services and it didn't help).
Would that be via /proc/sys/vm/bdflush? What do the numbers mean?
well I just tried the one init string suggested on Sergio Brandano's
powerbook page, and hey presto putting ATZ1 in as the modem initialisation
command makes the modem work correctly. (built in cobalt modem on a pismo)
from the AT command ref
Xn (using extended result codes)
X3 is what
Michael Schmitz schrieb:
As to excessive power use with modem on: I don't think I see that here.
Judged from the battery monitor plugin the power consumption seems fairly
normal (Lombard, 400 MHz, X with services reduced to a minimum and HD
actually spinning down on occasion, gives me
Michael Schmitz schrieb:
As to excessive power use with modem on: I don't think I see that here.
Judged from the battery monitor plugin the power consumption seems fairly
normal (Lombard, 400 MHz, X with services reduced to a minimum and HD
actually spinning down on occasion, gives me
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:40:40PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Michael Schmitz schrieb:
As to excessive power use with modem on: I don't think I see that here.
Judged from the battery monitor plugin the power consumption seems fairly
normal (Lombard, 400 MHz, X with services reduced to a
All
well I just tried the one init string suggested on Sergio Brandano's
powerbook page, and hey presto putting ATZ1 in as the modem initialisation
command makes the modem work correctly. (built in cobalt modem on a pismo)
from the AT command ref
Xn (using extended result codes)
You use the
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