On 13/05/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unless we keep the disk from spinning up, my patch isn't actually that effective. I am however using a similar patch to HAL on my media center embedded PC, where I'm only running a pretty stripped system, and spin the disks down mostly for noise, not power saving. My view still is that this is a valid patch to HAL, and I would be quite happy to do the action automatically in g-p-m. I'm not sure we need UI - we can probably just profile the mean time that the disk is idle and work out if it is worth powering down.
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I think it is - we are trimming easy stuff (like cpufreq and brightness) and I think we need to start looking at the drive spindown with a new vigour.
There's another factor here though, as I understand it hard drive lifetime is largely determined by the spin up/spin down frequency. So while it may save a bit of power spinning down more often, this might significantly shorten drive lifetimes. I'd definately want to have an option to disable that, if my understanding is correct. [However, my understanding is often incorrect] Jonathan. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
