On 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access
the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole
concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it :-) ).
So does it only work if no partition of the harddisk is mounted?
Help is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Jay
From what i've read of laptop mode, it basically does lots of disk
caching to reduce IO calls, but not completely eliminate them.
Eventually, the disk will need to be spun up again to synchronise the
disk with ram and make everything square, and then put new data in the
ram and get rid of stuff no longer relevant. So in my understanding,
limited ram could possibly be a choking point.
Hope these can be of use ^^;
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Laptop-mode
http://kerneltrap.org/node/653
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