On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Blake Hudson wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> > From: Blake Hudson <blake@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Minimising disk I/O > > I would suggest looking at articles that focus on laptop power > consumption, they typically have a section dedicated to disk accesses > and how to spin the disk down as much as possible since this has > traditionally been one of the better ways to minimize power consumption > on a laptop. > > This article has some good tips - especially relating to processes that > might be accessing the disk frequently > http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/powersaving.html > > --Blake Hi Blake. Thanks for that info. I'll take a look at that. Kind Regards, Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos