From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jul 27 0:57:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C8537C064 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA42887; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007270806.BAA42887@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tony Finch Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hdd sppin-down and syncer In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:14:10 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:06:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > = > My Dell Latitude-CPx spins down its hdd after 10 or 15 seconds, but a > few seconds later the syncer kicks in and it spins back up again. I > know it might be unwise to do this but I'd like to make the syncer > run less frequently. AFAICT one would just need to frob > SYNCER_MAXDELAY in vfs_subr.c to acheive this, but it will go up by > powers of two. The change below would be useful to make it easier to > change it in a kernel configuration file. You should use a tunable for this... -- = =2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message