Stefan Seyfried wrote: > Holy cow, NO! > Laptop mode kills performance badly, even the performance of a NFS mount.
do you have any real data on this? (and I mean on JUST kernel laptop mode; not any of the other stuff the laptop mode scripts poke at) > And with my measurements showing that disk spindown has more psychological > than real powersaving effects on modern laptop drives, i'd say we should > not do it unless the users asks for "kill my performance badly for a few > minutes more battery lifetime". laptop mode does not spin down the disk. laptop mode will save real power with ALPM; keeping the sata link idle longer helps; an idle sata link saves about 1W. _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
