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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #484

Comment 484 for bug 59695

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Bart Samwel (bart-samwel) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Akshay Srinivasan wrote:
> Brian :-
> About your fix :- Creating a new file , didn't really do any disk
> operation - atleast not immediately - so this means laptop-mode is
> actually working.
> Paradoxically , firefox some how does instantaneous write operations-
> laptop-mode fails to work here. Is there anyway one can bypass laptop-mode ?

Laptop mode doesn't disable synchronous operations, so you can add a
"sync" in the loop to flush the change to disk.

Cheers,
Bart