On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:43 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > DON'T DO THIS: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pm-utils/tree/pm/power.d/harddrive?h=powersave-hooks&id=ffe7052795e5ef8b64cb01c166e0993923e391af > > Spinning down the drive like this is a _very_ quick way to kill a > desktop or server. Laptop drivers are (sometimes) designed for this, but > spinning down a server disk a few times per hour kills it after a few > months. There are must better heuristics to spin down a drive, and > ac/battery is not one of them.
Hmmm... these settings have worked well for me over the years. What are these better heuristics? > Using your hook would kill even a laptop > drive very quickly -- as Linux userspace has not yet been fixed not to > spin the disk up frequently it can easily hit the 5000-50000 > spinup/spindown cycles in a year or so. > > The other hooks look pretty sane on initial inspection, so the branch is > a step in the right direction. It's just the spindown hook I'm violently > opposed to. OK, do we have a better method of reducing hard drive power consumption when running on battery? > Richard. > > -- Victor Lowther Ubuntu Certified Professional _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
