Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-13 Thread John Magolske
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [120613 14:22]: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, John Magolske wrote: > > BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=1 > > Yikes, that kills HDDs! > [...] > Your HDD will be MUCH happier with a value of 254, unless you're into > kicking the crap out of your box (when a value of 1 is much safer, si

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, John Magolske wrote: > I edited /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf and changed this line [1] : > BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=1 Yikes, that kills HDDs! > I suppose battery life will take a hit...guess the tradeoff here is a > stuttering user-interface vs. battery life. Sooner or late

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-13 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske [120601 19:09]: > * John Magolske [120525 17:13]: > > For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there > > are frequent and regular "freezes" when typing or issuing commands > > in the shell. All of a sudden I'll find myself "blind-typing" for 3 > > seconds or

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread John Magolske
Hi, * Osamu Aoki [120602 21:24]: > Since you are on sid, I was wondering if this is some regression of > mounting /tmp as tmpfs (not-exactly RAMDISK but practically the same. > tmpfs may be swapped out to harddisk, though.) > You said ... > >>> This is up-to-date Sid on an X200s ThinkPad, running

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:45:12PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. > > * Osamu Aoki [120602 09:53]: > > Where is your /tmp mounted. > > Under the main filesystem. Are you thinking of suggesting I mount > /tmp as a ramdisk? Since you are on sid, I was wondering

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread John Magolske
Hi, Thanks for the reply. * Osamu Aoki [120602 09:53]: > Where is your /tmp mounted. Under the main filesystem. Are you thinking of suggesting I mount /tmp as a ramdisk? > Please post "mount" output. ~ % mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,rela

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Where is your /tmp mounted. Please post "mount" output. On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:11:42AM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > * John Magolske [120525 17:13]: > > For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there > > are frequent and regular "freezes" when typing or issuing co

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-01 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske [120525 17:13]: > For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there > are frequent and regular "freezes" when typing or issuing commands > in the shell. All of a sudden I'll find myself "blind-typing" for 3 > seconds or so before a backlog of characters burst on