[ltp] Problem with laptop mode

[Tino Keitel]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 16:45:57 +0200, Guillermo Juárez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I partially soved the problem with my hard drive noise in my x60s.
> 
> Using laptop mode tools I can prevent the operating system from
> accessing the hard drive for a long time and thus not producing the
> constant "blowing" noise.
> 
> But for some reason, it's not working completely fine. Every 5 or 10
> seconds kjournald or pdflush are writing on the harddrive. I'm using a
> 2.6.17 kernel with mm-patches, but I tried with some other with the
> same results. Any success or tips out there?

If you use ext3, then try this: mount -o remount,commit=20000 /

You need to do this with all your ext3 partitions, not only /.

Regards,
Tino