m4cph1sto, thanks for the information. I - reporter - already have removed g-p-m from my system so couldn't provide the info.
> personally I think this is a bug because this behavior prevents the hard drive from spinning down and thus shortens battery life Very true. > and may lead to early hard drive failure. Not true. HDD are made for constant spinning. They can spin for several many month constantly without problems. In fact, spin-down & spin-up cycle is limited "resource" and does shorten life of HDDs. Negligibly, yet it does. (I heard laptop HDDs are tested for something like 100K spin-down-spin-up cycles.) But of course in context of laptops, this is clear bug. My personal problems are: battery life and heat. In fact, I'd say heat is bigger issue than battery life. As hard drive spins constantly, my notebook (namely the part where HDD is) heats up so much that I cannot keep it on my lap anymore. -- g-p-m keeps disk spinning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315970 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
