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From: "Kai Krueger" <kai.a.krueger@web.de>
To: "BartSamwel" <bart@samwel.tk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:07:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401121707.i0CH7iQ11796@mailgate5.cinetic.de> (raw)

Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> schrieb am 12.01.04 14:47:20:
> 
> Jan De Luyck wrote:
> >>2. Stop klogd, do "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump" and see which
> >>process keeps your disk spun up using dmesg.
> > 
> > Welll.... i see no READs, and the writes i see is spamd, kmail, pdflush, 
> > reiserfs/0.
> 
> How are the WRITEs grouped, are they grouped together or do they seem to 
> occur more evenly spaced? When you use "sync", how long until the next 
> WRITE? What are the values of /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs and 
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs? Are you sure you are running a 
> kernel that supports the commit= option with reiserfs? (This option was 
> added in 2.6.1.)
> 
> I've never tested laptop mode with reiserfs BTW, does anybody else here 
> have experience with laptop mode and reiserfs?

I'm currently trying kernel 2.6.1-mm1 with laptop-mode on a reiserfs partition.
If I kill all daemons running on the system and do nothing with it, I can achieve the 10 minutes spin down time I had expected from laptop-mode. However as soon as I start up X with KDE I get regular spin ups every 30 seconds. Looking at the output of "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump", I see an entry every 30 seconds of "kdeinit(15145): WRITE block 65680 on hda1" followed by a whole load of "reiserfs/0(12): dirtied page" and "reisers/0(12): WRITE block XXXXX on hda1".

Due to the regular 30 second interval writes of kdeinit: kded to block 65680, laptop-mode is not particularly usable on this system.
Is this a problem with reiserfs or with kde and is there any fix available?

> 
> -- Bart

Kai
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             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-12 17:07 Kai Krueger [this message]
2004-01-12 19:31 ` [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1 Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 20:51   ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-01-12 21:50     ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 22:51     ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-13  1:10 Kai Krueger
2004-01-13 11:58 ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-10 10:38 Bart Samwel
2004-01-10 11:15 ` Dax Kelson
2004-01-12  9:45 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12  9:59   ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 12:50     ` Dax Kelson
2004-01-12 12:59       ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 15:04       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-12 11:12 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 11:22   ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 12:43     ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 13:41       ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-12 13:32         ` Hugang
2004-01-12 17:30         ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-01-12 12:19   ` Kiko Piris
2004-01-12 12:45     ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 13:09     ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-12 14:02       ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-13 11:00         ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-13 11:01           ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-13 12:46             ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-13 14:21               ` Hugang
2004-01-13 17:17                 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-02-11  6:24             ` Jan De Luyck
2004-02-11 13:00               ` Micha Feigin

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