[CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

Tue Jul 8 18:29:06 UTC 2008
Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>

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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