Hmmm. I fail to see how KLaptopDaemon has anything to do with a bug report against KWin? The problem (if it still exists) is in a combination of kwin and laptop-mode-tools, which as nothing to do with KLaptopDaemon.
Cheers, Bart On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 04:51, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the kwin package: > > #364119: kwin writes to disk synchronously > > It has been closed by Olivier Vitrat <ovit.deb...@gmail.com>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Olivier Vitrat < > ovit.deb...@gmail.com> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 364119: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364119 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Olivier Vitrat <ovit.deb...@gmail.com> > To: 364119-d...@bugs.debian.org, 364119-qu...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:48:38 -0500 > Subject: Closing Debian bug 364119 > Hello, > This is no longer maintained. > See the comment at https://bugs.kde.org/146789 > " ------- Comment #2 From Dario Andres 2010-02-26 14:09:00 (-) > [reply] ------- > > I have personally contacted the KLaptopDaemon author/assigned and he > confirmed > that the tool is deprecated in KDE SC 4 (replaced by PowerDevil) and that > there > are no current efforts to support/maintain the KDE SC 3 version. > Because of this, I will close the reports as UNMAINTAINED. > Regards" > > I'm also closing the Debian bug report > thanks > Olivier > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bart Samwel <b...@samwel.tk> > To: sub...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:09:19 +0200 > Subject: kwin writes to disk synchronously > Package: kwin > Severity: normal > > Hi there, > > I got a report from a laptop-mode-tools user saying that kwin kept his disk > spun up. I checked his logs, and indeed it seems to be the case that his > kwin process explicitly syncs pretty regularly. I straced my own kwin to > confirm this behaviour, and I see the following: > > open("/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc6EREMa.new", > O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 11 > umask(0) = 022 > umask(022) = 0 > fchmod(11, 0600) = 0 > getgid32() = 1000 > getuid32() = 1000 > fchown32(11, 1000, 1000) = 0 > fcntl64(11, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 > stat64("/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc", > {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=824, ...}) = 0 > getuid32() = 1000 > getgid32() = 1000 > fchmod(11, 0100600) = 0 > fchmod(11, 0600) = 0 > fcntl64(11, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) > fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = > 0xb6705000 > _llseek(11, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 > write(11, "[1]\ndescription=(Default) Disabl"..., 824) = 824 > fdatasync(11) = 0 > close(11) = 0 > munmap(0xb6705000, 4096) = 0 > rename("/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc6EREMa.new", > "/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc") = 0 > > > and then: > > > open("/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kdeglobalsZbum9a.new", > O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 11 > umask(0) = 022 > umask(022) = 0 > fchmod(11, 0600) = 0 > getgid32() = 1000 > getuid32() = 1000 > fchown32(11, 1000, 1000) = 0 > fcntl64(11, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 > stat64("/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, > st_size=5804, ...}) = 0 > getuid32() = 1000 > getgid32() = 1000 > fchmod(11, 0100600) = 0 > fchmod(11, 0600) = 0 > fcntl64(11, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) > fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = > 0xb6705000 > _llseek(11, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 > write(11, "[$Version]\nupdate_info=kded.upd:"..., 4096) = 4096 > write(11, "ndow to Desktop 2=none\nWindow to"..., 1708) = 1708 > fdatasync(11) = 0 > close(11) = 0 > munmap(0xb6705000, 4096) = 0 > rename("/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kdeglobalsZbum9a.new", > "/home/bsamwel/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals") = 0 > > > So, here's my question: is that call to fdatasync() really necessary? And > can it be disabled somehow? It makes laptop mode pretty much unusable on > KDE. :-( > > > Cheers, > Bart Samwel > > >
