reducing power usage of Fedora - how you can help!

[dragoran]

On 8/10/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 23:56 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 8/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >         [..]
> >         echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
> >
> > gnome-power-manager already sets this (only to 2 but it does) when
> > running on battery.
> > also it does not use 5 to avoid to many spindown cycles
>
> laptop mode does not spin down the disk. It just clusters IO.


ok

And it's useful everywhere, not just when on battery...
>
>
> Let me say that again: Power saving matters everywhere, not just on
> battery. Just ask any sysadmin who runs a datacenter...


I didn't say it does not matter I  just explained  what gpm does  in fact  I
run a patched  x86_64 tickless kernel on my server because power savings
_do_ matter ;)

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