Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2000 01:25:24 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown |
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On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > You're right, but what you're missing is that with "noflushd", it was > possible to keep the disk spun down _even with pending writes_.
You may tweak /proc/sys/vm/bdflush to have it collect data for a long time before it is written to disk. This incurs some risk though: Your memory will get less and less, because more and more is occupied byt dirty buffers. At a certain percentage (first bdflush param), it will start to write to disk ...
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