[CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Tue Jul 8 18:29:06 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> The reason I want to try it is that the laptop appears to be running much
> hotter under KDE4 than it did under KDE3, so I want to test whether
> over-frequent updates is the reason or not. For instance, if I minimise this
> message then maximise it again, the fan will start. Obviously, if there was
> a problem with the temp mounting I would take it out again.
Does CentOS have a "laptop mode"? I'm only using this OS on servers, so
I never tried laptop optimizations.
Ubuntu does, and it seems to help keep the machine more quiet and cool.
I also mount local partitions "noatime", don't use 3D screensavers and
don't enable the Compiz 3D desktop effects. That crap is a distraction
anyway. Oh, and I also enable CPU frequency scaling.
I'm using Gnome, but these optimisations shouldn't depend on the desktop
environment. Maybe KDE enables some graphic effects of its own, I don't
know.
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Florin Andrei
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