On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Do you think that the kernel will STOP, HOLD and park the head in less than > a second? OR on the time we need?
this is why the windows driver uses heuristics to decide when the laptop is possibly unstable and *may* fall soon... because it takes something like 700ms to actually park. (a url floated by with the whitepaper-level details at some point.) btw -- my usual box is a t42p running winxp, and i disable the parking code... whatever my normal usage is tends to trigger the parking heuristics too readily. it's a cool idea, but i'm skeptical of its real-world value. as for other details it's trivial to lock the daemon in memory and run it at nice -4 to get a head start on parking even when at 100% cpu and under memory load. -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
