On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:49 +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem with setting a short idle timeout is that, on a typical > laptop or desktop system, you end up spinning the disk down and back > up several hundred times a day, which increases power consumption, I/O > latency and wear. Do we think our users are silly enough to set a short timeout of just a few minutes? I'd think most would use a setting of 20-30 minutes at a minimum. I never did understand why there were so many warnings; after all, some laptops even come with a default APM scheme in their HDDs that powers the disk down after 7 seconds! -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
