Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #315970
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 315970

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m4cph1sto (dlreid) wrote : Re: g-p-m keeps disk spinning

I can confirm that, on my system, about every 90 seconds gnome-power-manager is writing to the file:

$/HOME/.gnome2/gnome-power-manager/profile-G71C0001W210-38880-0000000193-discharging.csv

While it may be nice for some people to have g-p-m provide a battery discharging graph, personally I think this is a bug because this behavior prevents the hard drive from spinning down and thus shortens battery life and may lead to early hard drive failure.