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On 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access |
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> the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole |
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> concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it :-) ). |
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> So does it only work if no partition of the harddisk is mounted? |
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> Help is greatly appreciated! |
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> Cheers, |
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> Jay |
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>From what i've read of laptop mode, it basically does lots of disk |
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caching to reduce IO calls, but not completely eliminate them. |
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Eventually, the disk will need to be spun up again to synchronise the |
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disk with ram and make everything square, and then put new data in the |
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ram and get rid of stuff no longer relevant. So in my understanding, |
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limited ram could possibly be a choking point. |
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Hope these can be of use ^^; |
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http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Laptop-mode |
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/653 |
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/<ent Fredric |
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(aka theJackal) |
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