[dundee] laptop mode power saving

Antony D'Auria antony at nekorb.co.uk
Sun Oct 18 19:13:37 UTC 2009 

Yep,

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=561

It's stilll alpha but great for my Netbook. The Linux version can just be
unpacked and run. There's a portable version if you like it that much.

2009/10/18 Nicholas Walker <tel0seh at googlemail.com>

> SRiron is the modified Chromium amirite?
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Antony D'Auria <antony at nekorb.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> My netbook does run like it's on speed with Arch & Openbox :) Battery life
>> great. SRIron runs nice & quick, although not very configurable it does the
>> job for just a bit of general browsing.
>>
>> Ant
>>
>> 2009/10/18 Nicholas Walker <tel0seh at googlemail.com>
>>
>> remove those bloated UI's and run openbox instead :D
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>>>
>>>> hehe.. i suppose i could, just trying to get extended battery life. tee
>>>> hee..
>>>>
>>>> it's seems to be working a little better now.... looks like gnome is
>>>> full a fsync's
>>>>
>>>> fsync's seem to wake my system up!!!
>>>>
>>>> how do i get rid of them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- On *Sun, 18/10/09, Jennifer higgins <
>>>> sauntering.with.scissors at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Jennifer higgins <sauntering.with.scissors at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [dundee] laptop mode power saving
>>>> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
>>>> Date: Sunday, 18 October, 2009, 3:20 PM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> oh just power the laptop down you big geek ;)
>>>>
>>>> 2009/10/18 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk<http://mc/compose?to=toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>>  hmm. well it seems that firefox writes one more file which is not to
>>>>> it's cache or
>>>>> it's profile...it's...
>>>>>
>>>>> lsof | grep firefox | grep tmp
>>>>>
>>>>> firefox   27357       user   72u      REG        8,1        0  6177091
>>>>> /var/tmp/etilqs_2SWFrJKOPJgPeet (deleted)
>>>>>
>>>>> etilqs seemed to be sqlite backwards?
>>>>>
>>>>> bizzare.... any idea's what that is or how to relocated it to my
>>>>> ramdisk?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Lee
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On *Sun, 18/10/09, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk<http://mc/compose?to=toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>>> >* wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk<http://mc/compose?to=toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>>> >
>>>>> Subject: [dundee] laptop mode power saving
>>>>> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk<http://mc/compose?to=dundee@lists.lug.org.uk>
>>>>> >
>>>>> Date: Sunday, 18 October, 2009, 3:06 PM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Right,
>>>>>
>>>>> has any got laptop mode working successfully , i'm trying to get my
>>>>> hard disk to spin down as long as possible,
>>>>>
>>>>> i've been using a combination of lm-profile, iotop -o -d 10 -b
>>>>>
>>>>> now,  i've nailed fire fox from fsyncing all the time, that's improved
>>>>> things some what,
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23159573-Re-Make-Firefox-3x-more-responsive-with-a-simple-trick
>>>>>
>>>>> it's also faster too boot!
>>>>>
>>>>> however,  my hard disk sleeps for about 2mins, i've zapped syslog and
>>>>> klog for testing,
>>>>> so there should be nothing on the system that should need to wake the
>>>>> disk for writing.
>>>>>
>>>>> however, kkjournald is waking the disk up, (presumable to write the
>>>>> journal to disk)
>>>>> but the file system is mounted with
>>>>>
>>>>> /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600)
>>>>>
>>>>> so, it should only commit every 10 mins, or when we run low on memory.
>>>>>
>>>>>   PID USER      DISK READ  DISK WRITE   SWAPIN    IO    COMMAND
>>>>>   807 root           0 B/s    5.54 K/s  0.00 %  0.00 % [kjournald]
>>>>>  3911 user           0 B/s    0.40 K/s  0.00 %  0.00 %
>>>>> gnome-power-manager
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> oh,actually i wonder  if it's the gnome power manager, how ironic..
>>>>> looks like
>>>>> the gnome power manager might be forcing a sync...
>>>>>
>>>>> yes, it seems that a lot of gnome componets are doing a fsync, thus
>>>>> waking my disk
>>>>> up.. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> all i want is, while i'm not reading new data(i.e uncached data from
>>>>> disk) , i want
>>>>> applications to write (but delay that write until I say, or a timeout
>>>>> value).
>>>>>
>>>>> i think over use of the fsync call may be answer, but i think there's
>>>>> more to it than that.
>>>>>
>>>>> my harddrives now been dormant for 10mins....  spin down nirvarna has
>>>>> been reached.
>>>>>
>>>>> looks like killing the gnome power meter has stopped the spin ups...
>>>>> now that's
>>>>> ironic..  any replacements? or shall i go and hack it.
>>>>>
>>>>> i wonder if this would do ssd's good too.
>>>>>
>>>>> thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Lee
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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