On 6/8/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > 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> > > > > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem that maybe laptop mode is > > not totally operational since I would never be on battery? I'm trying > > changing this to '1' and seeing what happens. > > You can check if laptop_mode is enabled with: > > cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > > My desktop says 0 (disabled), and my laptop says 2 (enabled, but no idea > why it's not 1).
Mine says '2' also: myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode 2 myth11 root # > > Moreover, if your filesystem is ext3, a "mount" shows the following: > > /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr,commit=600) > > where the important part is the option "commit=600", the value being > your MAX_AGE parameter. If laptop_mode is disabled, the parameter is > either absent or "commit=0". So it aappears here to be enabled: myth11 root # mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=600) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev type ramfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) myth11 root # So this should be spinning the drive up every 10 minutes? I don't think that's happening but I'll watch it carefully for another 30 minutes. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
