On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks Remy. I'll investigate some of these settings. > > > > As I sat here at 6:48AM (roughly) the drive spun up again. I was > > watching 'top' but couldn't tell what process used more CPU. > > you can choose to use debug more in laptop mode. > > #echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
Maybe I don't have something configured correctly in the kernel? this didn't work. myth11 root # echo 1>/proc/sys/vm/block_dump myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/block_dump 0 myth11 root # > > and by the way, it should be which process used the HD isn't it? <chuckle> Well, yes, true, but my thought was that nothing would use the HD without using the CPU. Clearly I Was wrong or it wasn't enough to push it up and make it visible. > > [This is what happens when ppl top post and I don't read the bottom post > to reply 1st. So.. I answered the question again. Oh well.. since it's > already written] Yeah, sorry... > > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > <SNIP> > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 > > <SNIP> > > This is just a detection mech. Even though it says it will disable it, I > don't think it's really doing that. Because there's no cron-job to check > the remaining level etc. Uh....does that mean that cron needs to be running to use laptop_mode or only to check the battery, etc.? I looked at crontab -u root/nobody/mark and there were no entries so I figured I could try turning it off. I had not et figured out how to determine all the users that might possibly have crontab's. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
