[ltp] Less responsive input (blind typing) when running off
battery
Yves-Alexis Perez
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:33:05 +0200
On mer., 2011-08-17 at 05:20 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I'm wondering if this might have something to do with the hard drive
> > being in some power saving mode where it spins down more frequently
>
> Yes, it does. vim can be nasty like that. I am not sure how to work around
> it, it seems related to the vim swap file though.
>
Yes, vim syncs the swap files to disk after writing to it.
You can tune/disable the swap files with updatecount (200 chars by
default) and updatetime (4000 ms by default). See :help swap for more
info.
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis