Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:48:25 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spinning down the drive Message-ID: <20000606184825.J24457@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20000606234343.A68786@keltia.freenix.fr>; from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:43:43PM %2B0200 References: <20000606161140.A8303@dophnic.yi.org> <20000606234343.A68786@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> probably said: > Considering that you have a sync(2) every 30s (w/o softupdates) and even more > of them with softupdates, I don't see what you'd gain. > > I'd say it takes more power to restart the drive every N seconds than letting > it spin. > I may be wrong but I don't see it useful. I set my disk to spin down after 5 mins on my laptop and do actually notice fairly significant battery life gains but it depends a lot on usage. I turn off atrun, which helps. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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