On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 23:52 +1000, David Timms wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Hi, > > > > some of you already know that I've been working on getting Linux (and > > Fedora) to be a lot better about power usage on laptops by avoiding > > spurious wakeups and context switches and such (look at the "wakeup" bug > > in fedora bugzilla ;). > ... > Would this tool help one in tracing the cause of disk accesses in an > otherwise inactive/idle notebook. It seems to be about every 3 seconds > or so that the hard disk LED lights. This must make it impossible for > the hard drive to get powered down - and save power. I've gotten this request a few times now; I'll be looking into this for version 2.0; I'd think it would be possible with blktrace but I need to look into the details (don't want this tracing to spoil any other measurements ;) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
