Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-09 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:36:17PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I have no idea what Gnome, KDE, etc. are doing to my disk -- all I know > is that they seem to have business with it all the time, and it makes it > very difficult for the disk to spin down. FYI, kernel 2.6.17 has support for tracing

Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:52:12PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 9/9/06, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have been using noatime for quite awhile now. mount(8) does not > >mention nodiratime anywhere, and I have never used it. > > Same here. But googling for nodiratime shows it'

Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 9/9/06, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been using noatime for quite awhile now. mount(8) does not mention nodiratime anywhere, and I have never used it. Same here. But googling for nodiratime shows it's definitely in the kernel, and in wide use. Learned something today... c

Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:17:00PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 08 September 2006 19:36, John Goerzen wrote: > > I have no idea what Gnome, KDE, etc. are doing to my disk -- all I know > > is that they seem to have business with it all the time, and it makes it > > very difficul

Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 08 September 2006 19:36, John Goerzen wrote: > I have no idea what Gnome, KDE, etc. are doing to my disk -- all I know > is that they seem to have business with it all the time, and it makes it > very difficult for the disk to spin down. do you mount with "noatime" und "nodiratime"?

Re: so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:17:09PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: One other thing here -- and I would argue perhaps even more important -- is hard disk access. I've spent quite some time tuning that, and with traditional services (cron, MTAs, syslog, etc.) it's a bit time-consuming but possible. I h

so many applications wake up so often

2006-09-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
going off all the time for userspace, so many that the actual savings are not so great (about 250 events per second)." Given that so many applications wake up so often, what emacs does might not be measurable at this point, but it might make a difference in the future. (If anyone is