From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 25 17:24:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13427 for current-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:24:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp6.portal.net.au [202.12.71.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA13413 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:24:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00637; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:46:51 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801260116.LAA00637@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm on toshiba In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 23:32:55 -0000." <199801252332.QAA17175@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:46:51 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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. \\