Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:52:09 +0000


Hi!

> BTW, the "use a gigabyte of readahead" idea would cause VM hysteria
> if you access a 600 megabyte file, so I've wound that back to
> twenty megs.

Twenty megs is still way too much I believe. Well, definitely way too much
on 32MB machine, and I do not think it is required at all.

> Also, it has been suggested that the feature become more fully-fleshed,
> to support desktops with one disk spun down, etc. It's not really
> rocket science to do that - the
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