Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Kai Krueger]

Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> schrieb am 12.01.04 22:54:41:
>
> Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote:
> >>>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?
> >>
> >>Can you take a look at the message that Dumitru Ciobarcianu just sent to
> >>the list (about syslog), and check if it's that?
> >
> > Won't help him if kdeinit is doing fsync() on every friggind write.
> > syslog has an option to disable that, that's all.
> 
> I would be surprised if "kdeinit: kded" would do that. In fact, I run
> KDE, and it doesn't spin up the disk because of that, even though I have 
> about 15 kdeinit instances running, including one for kded. Of course, I 
> might be mistaken.
> 
> Kai, can you check the following: is the WRITE of kdeinit preceded by
> one or more "kdeinit: kded([some pid]): dirtied page" lines? And if they
> are, are they coming directly before the WRITE, or 5 seconds before it, 
> or 30 seconds before it? This distance might give a clue about the 
> cause. If it's directly before it (within a second), it's likely that 
> kded calls fsync. If it's about 5 or 30 seconds before it, it might have
> to do with some kind of writeback or expiry interval.

I can not see any log entries for "kdeinit: [some pid]: dirtied page". There are only the "kdeinit: () WRITE block 65680 on hda1". By the way, it is always block 65680; also across reboots if that is any indication and I have seen other processes like artsd write to that block without dirtying pages before as well.

Is there a way to find out what kdeinit writes to disk?

the sysklog daemon was shut down during the time of testing, so that shouldn't have effected it.

Thanks for the help,
Kai

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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Kai Krueger wrote:
> I can not see any log entries for "kdeinit: [some pid]: dirtied page". There are only the "kdeinit: () WRITE block 65680 on hda1". By the way, it is always block 65680; also across reboots if that is any indication and I have seen other processes like artsd write to that block without dirtying pages before as well.
> Is there a way to find out what kdeinit writes to disk?

Ehm... I don't know how to go from a block to a filename on reiserfs. 
Jens, do you have an idea?

Anyway, the other possibility is to use other file activity monitoring 
tools. Some fam client maybe (couldn't find any so quickly); maybe 
Filemon (http://www.sysinternals.com/linux/utilities/filemon.shtml) will 
work, but I don't know if it works for Linux 2.6. You may also try "lsof 
| grep kded", and see if it's one of those files. For me, it gives:

# lsof |grep kded
kdeinit    1185 bsamwel  mem    REG       3,65  117196    5146489 
/usr/lib/kded.so
kdeinit    1185 bsamwel  mem    REG       3,65  111412    9470211 
/usr/lib/kde3/kded_mountwatcher.so
kdeinit    1185 bsamwel  mem    REG       3,65   62408    9470683 
/usr/lib/kde3/kded_kinetd.so

Alternatively, you can try to attach an strace for kdeinit: kded, and 
see what calls it makes, e.g. "strace -p <pid>" or something like that.

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Micha Feigin]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:24:18AM +0100, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13 2004, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > > On Monday 12 January 2004 15:02, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > bo is accounted when io is actually put on the pending queue for the
> > > > disk, so they really do go hand in hand. So you should use block_dump
> > > > to find out why.
> > >
> > > It's nearly always reiserfs that causes the disk to spin up. Also, I'm
> > > seeting the harddisk led light up every 5-7 seconds :-( weird.
> >
> > Does 2.6 laptop mode patch even include the necessary reiser changes to
> > make this work properly?
> 
> To followup on this: I've recently moved my entire installation to ext3 (I had 
> to RMA the disk, tarred everything up, formatted another disk, put everything 
> back but on ext3 this time), on which the laptopmode actually makes a 
> difference. I can hear the disk spindown, and it stays that way for a 
> reasonably long time (e.g. +- 10 minutes has happened).
> 
> So there does seem to be a serious difference between the reiserfs commit 
> option and the ext3 option.
> 

The reiserfs commit option doesn't work to suppress reiserfs journal
writing to disk. The value that needs to be changes is the transaction
max age instead of the commit max age which is being change now.

This is under work along with adding xfs support and fixing the ext3
commit option (there is no reset to default commit value option at the
moment).

It won't take too long but if anyone is impatient I can send them a
patch to fix reiserfs.

> Just letting you folks know.
> 
> Jan
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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13 2004, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > On Monday 12 January 2004 15:02, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > bo is accounted when io is actually put on the pending queue for the
> > > disk, so they really do go hand in hand. So you should use block_dump
> > > to find out why.
> >
> > It's nearly always reiserfs that causes the disk to spin up. Also, I'm
> > seeting the harddisk led light up every 5-7 seconds :-( weird.
>
> Does 2.6 laptop mode patch even include the necessary reiser changes to
> make this work properly?

To followup on this: I've recently moved my entire installation to ext3 (I had 
to RMA the disk, tarred everything up, formatted another disk, put everything 
back but on ext3 this time), on which the laptopmode actually makes a 
difference. I can hear the disk spindown, and it stays that way for a 
reasonably long time (e.g. +- 10 minutes has happened).

So there does seem to be a serious difference between the reiserfs commit 
option and the ext3 option.

Just letting you folks know.

Jan

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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 15:21, Hugang wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:46:54 +0100
>
> Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> wrote:
> > The reiserfs patch for "commit=" was included in Linux 2.6.1. I really
> > don't know if it works with laptop mode, haven't tested it -- I don't
> > use reiserfs. So, let's ask the world: is there anyone out there who is
> > running laptop mode *successfully* with reiserfs?
>
> Yes, I'm use reiserfs in 2.6.1 with laptop_mode patch. It works fine for
> me, I use cpudyn daemon to let spin download harddisk. In cpudyn.conf I
> changed TIMEOUT from 120 to 10. When i reading email/web, the harddisk can
> spin down for very long time (>3min).
>
> So you can try cpudynd.

Well, i used the smart-spindown script posted earlier, but even when not 
touching the laptop it gets a spindown of 40 seconds max. Then something 
always has to wake it up.

> /dev/hda13 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600)

It is rather annoying that this commit parameter isn't documented anywhere... 
man mount doesn't know it, nor does the kernel documentation.

Jan

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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Hugang]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:46:54 +0100
Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> wrote:

> The reiserfs patch for "commit=" was included in Linux 2.6.1. I really 
> don't know if it works with laptop mode, haven't tested it -- I don't 
> use reiserfs. So, let's ask the world: is there anyone out there who is 
> running laptop mode *successfully* with reiserfs?
Yes, I'm use reiserfs in 2.6.1 with laptop_mode patch. It works fine for me, I use cpudyn daemon to let spin download harddisk. In cpudyn.conf
I changed TIMEOUT from 120 to 10. When i reading email/web, the harddisk can spin down for very long time (>3min). 

So you can try cpudynd.

# TIMEOUT=120
TIMEOUT=10

# 
# Specified disks to spindown (comma separated devices)
#

# DISKS=/dev/hda,/dev/hdb
DISKS=/dev/hda

For now, I switch to 2.6.1-mm2, it looks fine, not need any patch.

$mount
/dev/hda13 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/vg00/opt on /opt type reiserfs (rw,noatime,commit=600)
/dev/vg00/hugang on /home/hugang type reiserfs (rw,noatime,commit=600)
/dev/vg00/scm on /scm type reiserfs (rw,noatime,commit=600)
/dev/vg00/build on /build type reiserfs (rw,noatime,commit=600)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)

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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>bo is accounted when io is actually put on the pending queue for the
>>>disk, so they really do go hand in hand. So you should use block_dump to
>>>find out why.
>>
>>It's nearly always reiserfs that causes the disk to spin up. Also, I'm
>>seeting the harddisk led light up every 5-7 seconds :-( weird.
> 
> Does 2.6 laptop mode patch even include the necessary reiser changes to
> make this work properly?

The reiserfs patch for "commit=" was included in Linux 2.6.1. I really 
don't know if it works with laptop mode, haven't tested it -- I don't 
use reiserfs. So, let's ask the world: is there anyone out there who is 
running laptop mode *successfully* with reiserfs?

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Jan 13 2004, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 15:02, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > bo is accounted when io is actually put on the pending queue for the
> > disk, so they really do go hand in hand. So you should use block_dump to
> > find out why.
> 
> It's nearly always reiserfs that causes the disk to spin up. Also, I'm
> seeting the harddisk led light up every 5-7 seconds :-( weird.

Does 2.6 laptop mode patch even include the necessary reiser changes to
make this work properly?

-- 
Jens Axboe

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Monday 12 January 2004 15:02, Jens Axboe wrote:
> bo is accounted when io is actually put on the pending queue for the
> disk, so they really do go hand in hand. So you should use block_dump to
> find out why.

It's nearly always reiserfs that causes the disk to spin up. Also, I'm seeting 
the harddisk led light up every 5-7 seconds :-( weird.

Jan
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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Andrew Morton]

Dumitru Ciobarcianu <Dumitru.Ciobarcianu@iNES.RO> wrote:
>
> This e-mail is written using "LD_PRELOAD=no-fsync.so evolution", and the
> disc does not spin up every time I switch to another folder or just
> another e-mail.
> 
> ...
> Now I wonder what will happen if I do this system-wide...

I think it's a valid thing to do, personally.  I had a "personal
laptop-mode" patch ages ago which just disabled fsync, fdatasync and O_SYNC
kernel-wide.  Gone.

It's the sort of thing which email purists tend to get emotional about, but
really this is a choice which should be made available to the user if you
want to do this thing properly.


sync() needs to still work.  If you have some app which calls sync() all
the time then you lose.

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote:
>>>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?
>>
>>Can you take a look at the message that Dumitru Ciobarcianu just sent to 
>>the list (about syslog), and check if it's that?
> 
> Won't help him if kdeinit is doing fsync() on every friggind write.
> syslog has an option to disable that, that's all.

I would be surprised if "kdeinit: kded" would do that. In fact, I run 
KDE, and it doesn't spin up the disk because of that, even though I have 
about 15 kdeinit instances running, including one for kded. Of course, I 
might be mistaken.

Kai, can you check the following: is the WRITE of kdeinit preceded by 
one or more "kdeinit: kded([some pid]): dirtied page" lines? And if they 
are, are they coming directly before the WRITE, or 5 seconds before it, 
or 30 seconds before it? This distance might give a clue about the 
cause. If it's directly before it (within a second), it's likely that 
kded calls fsync. If it's about 5 or 30 seconds before it, it might have 
to do with some kind of writeback or expiry interval.

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Dumitru Ciobarcianu]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 21:31, Bart Samwel wrote:
> Kai Krueger wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Can you take a look at the message that Dumitru Ciobarcianu just sent to 
> the list (about syslog), and check if it's that?

Won't help him if kdeinit is doing fsync() on every friggind write.
syslog has an option to disable that, that's all.

That's what evolution was doing until some friends helped me build an
fsync "NOP" wrapper .

This e-mail is written using "LD_PRELOAD=no-fsync.so evolution", and the
disc does not spin up every time I switch to another folder or just
another e-mail.

(Yeah, I know it's not an good ideea if I care about my e-mail, but I
keep backups... :)

Now I wonder what will happen if I do this system-wide...

hmmm... candy...

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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Kai Krueger wrote:
> 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?

Can you take a look at the message that Dumitru Ciobarcianu just sent to 
the list (about syslog), and check if it's that?

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Dumitru Ciobarcianu]

For the users of laptop-mode patch I find this entry in the manual page
of syslog.conf very interesting:

"You may prefix each entry with the minus ‘‘-’’ sign to omit syncing the
file  after every logging.  Note that you might lose information if the
system crashes right behind a write attempt.  Nevertheless  this  might
give you back some performance, especially if you run programs that use
logging in a very verbose manner."

Found that after finding out that it was syslogd who spun up my disk:)


-- 
Cioby

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Kai Krueger]

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

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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 05:50:34 MST, Dax Kelson said:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:59, Bart Samwel wrote:
> > Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > > There seems to be a typo in the battery.sh script. It 
> > > reads /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to determine the AC Adaptor state, b
ut 
> > > this is in the ACAD directory instead of the AC directory.
> > 
> > Hmmm, Dax says it works for him, and I don't have an ac_adapter on my 
> > machine because I don't own a laptop. Dax, is this a typo or is it 
> > actually called AC on your machine?
> 
> On my Dell Inspiron 4150 it is called AC not ACAD.

Dell Latitude C840 calls it /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state as well.


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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Jan 12 2004, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 13:19, Kiko Piris wrote:
> > On 12/01/2004 at 12:12, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > > Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just
> > > doesn't want to spin down...
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda
> > > always tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk
> > > spinning...
> > >
> > > anything else I have to activate/check?
> >
> > As you don't say if you have checked it, here goes my suggestion:
> >
> > First of all, you should assure there's no process doing reads [*] that
> > cause a cache miss (eg. daemons like postfix that check the queue every
> > few seconds). You can tell this running vmstat 1 and see that bi and bo
> > [**] stay at 0.
> 
> vmstat 1:
> 
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1514  1130  7  4 89  0
>  0  0      0  88756  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1495  1123  6  1 93  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1504  1114  8  4 88  0
>  1  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1499  1058  6  2 92  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1488  1062  7  4 89  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1480  1007  7  6 87  0
>  0  0      0  88876  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1524  1122  7  6 87  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1506  1078 11  6 83  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1500  1057 11  5 84  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1514  1040 16  3 81  0
>  0  1      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0    28 1523  1041 19  4 64 13
>  0  1      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1500   994 23  2  0 75
>  0  0      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0    32 1540  1064 25  1 53 21
>  0  0      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1501  1064 24  0 76  0
>  0  0      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1514  1071 24  1 75  0
>  2  0      0  88812  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1518  1086 24  1 75  0
>  0  0      0  88804  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1504  1066 24  2 74  0
>  0  0      0  88740  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1482  1015 25  1 74  0
> 
> At the presence of bo it spins up the disk.

bo is accounted when io is actually put on the pending queue for the
disk, so they really do go hand in hand. So you should use block_dump to
find out why.

-- 
Jens Axboe

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

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?

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Hugang]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:41:16 +0100
Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk> wrote:

> 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?
Yes, I'm use reiserfs in 2.6.1 with laptop_mode patch. It works fine for me, I use cpudyn daemon to let spin download harddisk. In cpudyn.conf
I changed TIMEOUT from 120 to 10. When i reading email/web, the harddisk can spin down for very long time (>3min). 

So you can try cpudynd.


# TIMEOUT=120
TIMEOUT=10

# 
# Specified disks to spindown (comma separated devices)
#

# DISKS=/dev/hda,/dev/hdb
DISKS=/dev/hda


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Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Monday 12 January 2004 13:19, Kiko Piris wrote:
> On 12/01/2004 at 12:12, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just
> > doesn't want to spin down...
>
> [...]
>
> > But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda
> > always tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk
> > spinning...
> >
> > anything else I have to activate/check?
>
> As you don't say if you have checked it, here goes my suggestion:
>
> First of all, you should assure there's no process doing reads [*] that
> cause a cache miss (eg. daemons like postfix that check the queue every
> few seconds). You can tell this running vmstat 1 and see that bi and bo
> [**] stay at 0.

vmstat 1:

 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1514  1130  7  4 89  0
 0  0      0  88756  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1495  1123  6  1 93  0
 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1504  1114  8  4 88  0
 1  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1499  1058  6  2 92  0
 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1488  1062  7  4 89  0
 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1480  1007  7  6 87  0
 0  0      0  88876  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1524  1122  7  6 87  0
 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1506  1078 11  6 83  0
 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1500  1057 11  5 84  0
 0  0      0  88748  37628 216216    0    0     0     0 1514  1040 16  3 81  0
 0  1      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0    28 1523  1041 19  4 64 13
 0  1      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1500   994 23  2  0 75
 0  0      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0    32 1540  1064 25  1 53 21
 0  0      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1501  1064 24  0 76  0
 0  0      0  88748  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1514  1071 24  1 75  0
 2  0      0  88812  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1518  1086 24  1 75  0
 0  0      0  88804  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1504  1066 24  2 74  0
 0  0      0  88740  37660 216216    0    0     0     0 1482  1015 25  1 74  0

At the presence of bo it spins up the disk.

Jan
-- 
Only fools are quoted.
		-- Anonymous

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Dax Kelson wrote:
>>>There seems to be a typo in the battery.sh script. It 
>>>reads /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to determine the AC Adaptor state, but 
>>>this is in the ACAD directory instead of the AC directory.
>>
>>Hmmm, Dax says it works for him, and I don't have an ac_adapter on my 
>>machine because I don't own a laptop. Dax, is this a typo or is it 
>>actually called AC on your machine?
> 
> On my Dell Inspiron 4150 it is called AC not ACAD.

Hmmmm. Does anybody have any idea why these names differ? Googling for 
acpi/ac_adapter gives me hits on a number of different programs that 
check for ac_adapter/*/state. I've seen AC, ACAD, 0 and 1 for names, so 
they're really pretty variable. So, a wildcard seems appropriate. Dax, 
if you agree, would you test + send in a patch to correct this? I can't 
do it myself because I can't test it. TIA!

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Dax Kelson]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:59, Bart Samwel wrote:
> Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > There seems to be a typo in the battery.sh script. It 
> > reads /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to determine the AC Adaptor state, but 
> > this is in the ACAD directory instead of the AC directory.
> 
> Hmmm, Dax says it works for him, and I don't have an ac_adapter on my 
> machine because I don't own a laptop. Dax, is this a typo or is it 
> actually called AC on your machine?

On my Dell Inspiron 4150 it is called AC not ACAD.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Monday 12 January 2004 13:19, Kiko Piris wrote:
> As you don't say if you have checked it, here goes my suggestion:
>
> First of all, you should assure there's no process doing reads [*] that
> cause a cache miss (eg. daemons like postfix that check the queue every
> few seconds). You can tell this running vmstat 1 and see that bi and bo
> [**] stay at 0.

bi == 0 in 99% of the time. It caused one spinup sofar, and the disk has been 
spun op 10 times sofar.

> [*] Processes making disk writes are supposed to be "harmless", because
> laptop-mode will delay those writes to disk (that's what it's supposed
> to do! ;).

Well, it looks otherwise to me.

Jan
-- 
It's hard to keep your shirt on when you're getting something off your chest.

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Monday 12 January 2004 12:22, Bart Samwel wrote:(
> Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just
> > doesn't want to spin down...
>
> [...]
>
> > But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda
> > always tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk
> > spinning...
> >
> > anything else I have to activate/check?
>
> Two things to try:
>
> 1. Check your HD with hdparm -I /dev/hdX, and see what it says at the
> "Standby timer values:" entry. Mine says:
>
> Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum

Mine gives:

Standby timer values: spec'd by Vendor, no device specific minimum

(is an HITACHI_DK23EA-40)

> smart_spindown script instead (I posted this a while ago, with one of
> the laptop_mode patches).

Will do.

> 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.

Jan
-- 
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social
sciences' is: some do, some don't.
		-- Ernest Rutherford

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Kiko Piris]

On 12/01/2004 at 12:12, Jan De Luyck wrote:

> Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just doesn't 
> want to spin down... 
[...]
> But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda always 
> tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk spinning...
> 
> anything else I have to activate/check?

As you don't say if you have checked it, here goes my suggestion:

First of all, you should assure there's no process doing reads [*] that
cause a cache miss (eg. daemons like postfix that check the queue every
few seconds). You can tell this running vmstat 1 and see that bi and bo
[**] stay at 0.

For example, I've observed that fetchmail (using imaps protocol, with
exim as mta) triggers a disk read that spins up the disk _always_
(regardless of what's in the cache). However, I must confess I have'nt
tracked it down (or even looked at any source code).

[*] Processes making disk writes are supposed to be "harmless", because
laptop-mode will delay those writes to disk (that's what it's supposed
to do! ;).

[**] And that's why vmstat's bo is supposed to stay at 0.

-- 
Kiko

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Jan De Luyck wrote:
> Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just doesn't 
> want to spin down... 
[...]
> But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda always 
> tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk spinning...
> 
> anything else I have to activate/check?

Two things to try:

1. Check your HD with hdparm -I /dev/hdX, and see what it says at the 
"Standby timer values:" entry. Mine says:

Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum

In fact, when I set my HD to spin down in 20 seconds, it never spins 
down -- it's below the minimum. Try a higher value, or use my 
smart_spindown script instead (I posted this a while ago, with one of 
the laptop_mode patches).

2. Stop klogd, do "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump" and see which 
process keeps your disk spun up using dmesg.

Let me know if this helps.

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Saturday 10 January 2004 11:38, Bart Samwel wrote:
> I've created a new version of the laptop-mode patch, this time against
> linux 2.6.1. It can be found here:
>
> http://www.liacs.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/laptop-mode-2.6.1-7.patch

Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just doesn't 
want to spin down... 

I have to activate it using ACPI BATT events, since my machine does not send 
out ACAD events. This is in /var/log/acpid:

[Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] received event "battery BAT2 00000080 00000000"
[Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] executing action "/etc/acpi/battery.sh"
[Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
Setting HD spindown to 20 seconds
Starting laptop_mode.

/dev/hda:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x01 (1)
 setting standby to 4 (20 seconds)
[Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] action exited with status 0
[Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] completed event "battery BAT2 00000080 00000000"

Laptop mode is active:
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode 
1

Commit values have been applied:
$ mount -t reiserfs
/dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail,commit=600)
/dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail,commit=600)

But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda always 
tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk spinning...

anything else I have to activate/check?

-- 
To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.
		-- Benjamin Franklin

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

Jan De Luyck wrote:
> There seems to be a typo in the battery.sh script. It 
> reads /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to determine the AC Adaptor state, but 
> this is in the ACAD directory instead of the AC directory.

Hmmm, Dax says it works for him, and I don't have an ac_adapter on my 
machine because I don't own a laptop. Dax, is this a typo or is it 
actually called AC on your machine?

-- Bart

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Jan De Luyck]

On Saturday 10 January 2004 11:38, Bart Samwel wrote:
> I've created a new version of the laptop-mode patch, this time against
> linux 2.6.1. It can be found here:
>
> http://www.liacs.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/laptop-mode-2.6.1-7.patch
>
> It has no kernel code changes, only changes to the supporting
> documentation/scripts:
>
> * Dax Kelson's ACPI integration script is included.
> * Fixed a missing "esac" in the control script.
> * Minor documentation improvements.
>
> Especially Dax's addition should make it a lot more usable. I haven't
> been able to test this myself however, because I don't own a laptop. Dax
> probably does, so I'll trust him and assume that he has tested it. ;)

There seems to be a typo in the battery.sh script. It 
reads /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to determine the AC Adaptor state, but 
this is in the ACAD directory instead of the AC directory.

Jan
-- 
The man on tops walks a lonely street; the "chain" of command is often a 
noose.

Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Dax Kelson]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 03:38, Bart Samwel wrote:
> I've created a new version of the laptop-mode patch, this time against 
> linux 2.6.1. It can be found here:
> 
> http://www.liacs.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/laptop-mode-2.6.1-7.patch
> 
> It has no kernel code changes, only changes to the supporting 
> documentation/scripts:
> 
> * Dax Kelson's ACPI integration script is included.
> * Fixed a missing "esac" in the control script.
> * Minor documentation improvements.
> 
> Especially Dax's addition should make it a lot more usable. I haven't 
> been able to test this myself however, because I don't own a laptop. Dax 
> probably does, so I'll trust him and assume that he has tested it. ;)

Indeed. 

It works well, I've been using it on my laptop for the past few days.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

[PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1

[Bart Samwel]

I've created a new version of the laptop-mode patch, this time against 
linux 2.6.1. It can be found here:

http://www.liacs.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/laptop-mode-2.6.1-7.patch

It has no kernel code changes, only changes to the supporting 
documentation/scripts:

* Dax Kelson's ACPI integration script is included.
* Fixed a missing "esac" in the control script.
* Minor documentation improvements.

Especially Dax's addition should make it a lot more usable. I haven't 
been able to test this myself however, because I don't own a laptop. Dax 
probably does, so I'll trust him and assume that he has tested it. ;)

-- Bart