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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:47:14 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"
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Hi!

> > Here's a patch which is designed to make the kernel play more nicely
> > with portable computers.
> 
> I just had a brainwave.  The following text has been added...
> 
> 
> Aside: there is another reason why disks spin up more often than
> necessary: an application has only read a part of a file, and it needs
> to fetch more of that file later on.  This commonly happens with the
> pagein of executables.  To fix this you can increase the readahead
> tunable of your disk drive to something enormous (say, one gigabyte):

This was not required in my configs...
								Pavel
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