On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:07:36 +0200 Tijl Coosemans <[email protected]> wrote:
> FreeBSD frequently accesses hard disks (log files, flushing dirty > memory pages every 30s,...) and laptop drives tend to have aggressive > power saving settings by default. That's why your load cycle is so > high. I'm not sure the APM value updates the idle3 timer inside the drive: it may be necessary to run WD's wdidle3.exe tool to change the power management timer. And yes, people are rather annoyed that it's necessary to have a copy of DOS to update the drive! -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
