[ltp] laptop mode

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:39:59 +0100


On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:59:33 +0100, Michele Campeotto wrote:
> > I don't use laptop-mode at all, but use this way to get acceptable spin
> > down times:
> 
>   if you look at /usr/sbin/laptop_mode, you'll see that it does just
> that (among other things, like telling the kernel you want the full
> laptop_mode), provided you set MAX_TIME=20000 in
> /etc/laptop-mode/lapop-mode.conf

If I turn on /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode, spin down behaviour will be
lousy here. That's why I don't use it, appart from the fact that the
script does many things, but I just wanted to know what is neccessary
to get good spin down times.

Regards,
Tino