Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:46:51 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm on toshiba Message-ID: <199801260116.LAA00637@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 23:32:55 -0000." <199801252332.QAA17175@usr02.primenet.com>
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> > No. You can hotkey through your power settings, and organise your > > disk spindown with the BIOS setup, but if you want to let the disk spin > > down you need to stretch the update time out further. > > The update time only applies to dirty buffers. If you don't dirty any > buffers, you won't spin up for update writes. If you do dirty buffers, > you are probably doing reads to do it, so your disk will already be spun > up. Either way, it should not be necessary to hack updated. You don't need to hack anything, just tune kern.update. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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