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How to conserve battery power using laptop-mode |
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Document Author: Bart Samwel ([email protected]) |
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Date created: January 2, 2004 |
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Last modified: December 06, 2004 |
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Introduction |
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------------ |
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Laptop mode is used to minimize the time that the hard disk needs to be spun up, |
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to conserve battery power on laptops. It has been reported to cause significant |
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power savings. |
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.. Contents |
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* Introduction |
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* Installation |
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* Caveats |
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* The Details |
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* Tips & Tricks |
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* Control script |
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* ACPI integration |
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* Monitoring tool |
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Installation |
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------------ |
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To use laptop mode, you don't need to set any kernel configuration options |
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or anything. Simply install all the files included in this document, and |
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laptop mode will automatically be started when you're on battery. For |
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your convenience, a tarball containing an installer can be downloaded at: |
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http://www.samwel.tk/laptop_mode/laptop_mode/ |
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To configure laptop mode, you need to edit the configuration file, which is |
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located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian-based systems, or in |
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/etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on other systems. |
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Unfortunately, automatic enabling of laptop mode does not work for |
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laptops that don't have ACPI. On those laptops, you need to start laptop |
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mode manually. To start laptop mode, run "laptop_mode start", and to |
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stop it, run "laptop_mode stop". (Note: The laptop mode tools package now |
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has experimental support for APM, you might want to try that first.) |
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Caveats |
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* The downside of laptop mode is that you have a chance of losing up to 10 |
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minutes of work. If you cannot afford this, don't use it! The supplied ACPI |
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scripts automatically turn off laptop mode when the battery almost runs out, |
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so that you won't lose any data at the end of your battery life. |
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* Most desktop hard drives have a very limited lifetime measured in spindown |
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cycles, typically about 50.000 times (it's usually listed on the spec sheet). |
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Check your drive's rating, and don't wear down your drive's lifetime if you |
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don't need to. |
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* If you mount some of your ext3/reiserfs filesystems with the -n option, then |
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the control script will not be able to remount them correctly. You must set |
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DO_REMOUNTS=0 in the control script, otherwise it will remount them with the |
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wrong options -- or it will fail because it cannot write to /etc/mtab. |
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* If you have your filesystems listed as type "auto" in fstab, like I did, then |
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the control script will not recognize them as filesystems that need remounting. |
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You must list the filesystems with their true type instead. |
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* It has been reported that some versions of the mutt mail client use file access |
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times to determine whether a folder contains new mail. If you use mutt and |
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experience this, you must disable the noatime remounting by setting the option |
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DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME to 0 in the configuration file. |
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The Details |
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Laptop mode is controlled by the knob /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. This knob is |
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present for all kernels that have the laptop mode patch, regardless of any |
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configuration options. When the knob is set, any physical disk I/O (that might |
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have caused the hard disk to spin up) causes Linux to flush all dirty blocks. The |
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result of this is that after a disk has spun down, it will not be spun up |
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anymore to write dirty blocks, because those blocks had already been written |
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immediately after the most recent read operation. The value of the laptop_mode |
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knob determines the time between the occurrence of disk I/O and when the flush |
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is triggered. A sensible value for the knob is 5 seconds. Setting the knob to |
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0 disables laptop mode. |
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To increase the effectiveness of the laptop_mode strategy, the laptop_mode |
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control script increases dirty_expire_centisecs and dirty_writeback_centisecs in |
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/proc/sys/vm to about 10 minutes (by default), which means that pages that are |
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dirtied are not forced to be written to disk as often. The control script also |
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changes the dirty background ratio, so that background writeback of dirty pages |
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is not done anymore. Combined with a higher commit value (also 10 minutes) for |
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ext3 or ReiserFS filesystems (also done automatically by the control script), |
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this results in concentration of disk activity in a small time interval which |
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occurs only once every 10 minutes, or whenever the disk is forced to spin up by |
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a cache miss. The disk can then be spun down in the periods of inactivity. |
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Configuration |
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The laptop mode configuration file is located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on |
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Debian-based systems, or in /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on other systems. It |
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contains the following options: |
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MAX_AGE: |
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Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are |
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comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this |
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amount of work if your battery fails while you're in laptop mode. |
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MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES: |
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Automatically disable laptop mode if the remaining number of minutes of |
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battery power is less than this value. Default is 10 minutes. |
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AC_HD/BATT_HD: |
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The idle timeout that should be set on your hard drive when laptop mode |
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is active (BATT_HD) and when it is not active (AC_HD). The defaults are |
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20 seconds (value 4) for BATT_HD and 2 hours (value 244) for AC_HD. The |
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possible values are those listed in the manual page for "hdparm" for the |
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"-S" option. |
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HD: |
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The devices for which the spindown timeout should be adjusted by laptop mode. |
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Default is /dev/hda. If you specify multiple devices, separate them by a space. |
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READAHEAD: |
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Disk readahead, in 512-byte sectors, while laptop mode is active. A large |
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readahead can prevent disk accesses for things like executable pages (which are |
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loaded on demand while the application executes) and sequentially accessed data |
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(MP3s). |
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DO_REMOUNTS: |
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The control script automatically remounts any mounted journaled filesystems |
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with appropriate commit interval options. When this option is set to 0, this |
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feature is disabled. |
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DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME: |
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When remounting, should the filesystems be remounted with the noatime option? |
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Normally, this is set to "1" (enabled), but there may be programs that require |
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access time recording. |
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DIRTY_RATIO: |
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The percentage of memory that is allowed to contain "dirty" or unsaved data |
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before a writeback is forced, while laptop mode is active. Corresponds to |
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the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio sysctl. |
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DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO: |
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The percentage of memory that is allowed to contain "dirty" or unsaved data |
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after a forced writeback is done due to an exceeding of DIRTY_RATIO. Set |
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this nice and low. This corresponds to the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio |
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sysctl. |
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Note that the behaviour of dirty_background_ratio is quite different |
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when laptop mode is active and when it isn't. When laptop mode is inactive, |
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dirty_background_ratio is the threshold percentage at which background writeouts |
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start taking place. When laptop mode is active, however, background writeouts |
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are disabled, and the dirty_background_ratio only determines how much writeback |
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is done when dirty_ratio is reached. |
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DO_CPU: |
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Enable CPU frequency scaling when in laptop mode. (Requires CPUFreq to be setup. |
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See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst for more info. Disabled by default.) |
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CPU_MAXFREQ: |
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When on battery, what is the maximum CPU speed that the system should use? Legal |
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values are "slowest" for the slowest speed that your CPU is able to operate at, |
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or a value listed in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies. |
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Tips & Tricks |
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* Bartek Kania reports getting up to 50 minutes of extra battery life (on top |
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of his regular 3 to 3.5 hours) using a spindown time of 5 seconds (BATT_HD=1). |
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* You can spin down the disk while playing MP3, by setting disk readahead |
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to 8MB (READAHEAD=16384). Effectively, the disk will read a complete MP3 at |
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once, and will then spin down while the MP3 is playing. (Thanks to Bartek |
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Kania.) |
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* Drew Scott Daniels observed: "I don't know why, but when I decrease the number |
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of colours that my display uses it consumes less battery power. I've seen |
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this on powerbooks too. I hope that this is a piece of information that |
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might be useful to the Laptop Mode patch or its users." |
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* In syslog.conf, you can prefix entries with a dash `-` to omit syncing the |
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file after every logging. When you're using laptop-mode and your disk doesn't |
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spin down, this is a likely culprit. |
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* Richard Atterer observed that laptop mode does not work well with noflushd |
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(http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/), it seems that noflushd prevents laptop-mode |
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from doing its thing. |
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* If you're worried about your data, you might want to consider using a USB |
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memory stick or something like that as a "working area". (Be aware though |
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that flash memory can only handle a limited number of writes, and overuse |
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may wear out your memory stick pretty quickly. Do _not_ use journalling |
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filesystems on flash memory sticks.) |
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Configuration file for control and ACPI battery scripts |
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This allows the tunables to be changed for the scripts via an external |
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configuration file |
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It should be installed as /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian, and as |
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/etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake, and other work-alikes. |
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Config file:: |
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# Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are |
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# comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this |
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# amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode. |
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#MAX_AGE=600 |
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# Automatically disable laptop mode when the number of minutes of battery |
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# that you have left goes below this threshold. |
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MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10 |
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# Read-ahead, in 512-byte sectors. You can spin down the disk while playing MP3/OGG |
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# by setting the disk readahead to 8MB (READAHEAD=16384). Effectively, the disk |
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# will read a complete MP3 at once, and will then spin down while the MP3/OGG is |
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# playing. |
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#READAHEAD=4096 |
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# Shall we remount journaled fs. with appropriate commit interval? (1=yes) |
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#DO_REMOUNTS=1 |
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# And shall we add the "noatime" option to that as well? (1=yes) |
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#DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME=1 |
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# Dirty synchronous ratio. At this percentage of dirty pages the process |
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# which |
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# calls write() does its own writeback |
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#DIRTY_RATIO=40 |
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# |
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# Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been |
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# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the |
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# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, |
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# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. |
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# |
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#DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5 |
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# kernel default dirty buffer age |
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#DEF_AGE=30 |
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#DEF_UPDATE=5 |
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#DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=10 |
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#DEF_DIRTY_RATIO=40 |
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#DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER=15 |
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#DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL=30 |
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#DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL=1 |
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# This must be adjusted manually to the value of HZ in the running kernel |
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# on 2.4, until the XFS people change their 2.4 external interfaces to work in |
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# centisecs. This can be automated, but it's a work in progress that still |
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# needs# some fixes. On 2.6 kernels, XFS uses USER_HZ instead of HZ for |
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# external interfaces, and that is currently always set to 100. So you don't |
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# need to change this on 2.6. |
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#XFS_HZ=100 |
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# Should the maximum CPU frequency be adjusted down while on battery? |
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# Requires CPUFreq to be setup. |
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# See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst for more info |
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#DO_CPU=0 |
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# When on battery what is the maximum CPU speed that the system should |
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# use? Legal values are "slowest" for the slowest speed that your |
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# CPU is able to operate at, or a value listed in: |
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# /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies |
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# Only applicable if DO_CPU=1. |
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#CPU_MAXFREQ=slowest |
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# Idle timeout for your hard drive (man hdparm for valid values, -S option) |
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# Default is 2 hours on AC (AC_HD=244) and 20 seconds for battery (BATT_HD=4). |
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#AC_HD=244 |
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#BATT_HD=4 |
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# The drives for which to adjust the idle timeout. Separate them by a space, |
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# e.g. HD="/dev/hda /dev/hdb". |
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#HD="/dev/hda" |
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# Set the spindown timeout on a hard drive? |
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#DO_HD=1 |
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Control script |
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Please note that this control script works for the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 series (thanks |
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to Kiko Piris). |
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Control script:: |
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#!/bin/bash |
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# start or stop laptop_mode, best run by a power management daemon when |
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# ac gets connected/disconnected from a laptop |
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# |
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# install as /sbin/laptop_mode |
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# |
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# Contributors to this script: Kiko Piris |
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# Bart Samwel |
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# Micha Feigin |
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# Andrew Morton |
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# Herve Eychenne |
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# Dax Kelson |
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# |
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# Original Linux 2.4 version by: Jens Axboe |
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############################################################################# |
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# Source config |
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if [ -f /etc/default/laptop-mode ] ; then |
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# Debian |
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. /etc/default/laptop-mode |
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elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode ] ; then |
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# Others |
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. /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode |
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fi |
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# Don't raise an error if the config file is incomplete |
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# set defaults instead: |
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# Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are |
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# comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this |
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# amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode. |
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MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'} |
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# Read-ahead, in kilobytes |
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READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'} |
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# Shall we remount journaled fs. with appropriate commit interval? (1=yes) |
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DO_REMOUNTS=${DO_REMOUNTS:-'1'} |
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# And shall we add the "noatime" option to that as well? (1=yes) |
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DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME=${DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME:-'1'} |
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# Shall we adjust the idle timeout on a hard drive? |
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DO_HD=${DO_HD:-'1'} |
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# Adjust idle timeout on which hard drive? |
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HD="${HD:-'/dev/hda'}" |
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# spindown time for HD (hdparm -S values) |
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AC_HD=${AC_HD:-'244'} |
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BATT_HD=${BATT_HD:-'4'} |
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# Dirty synchronous ratio. At this percentage of dirty pages the process which |
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# calls write() does its own writeback |
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DIRTY_RATIO=${DIRTY_RATIO:-'40'} |
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# cpu frequency scaling |
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# See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst for more info |
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DO_CPU=${CPU_MANAGE:-'0'} |
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CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'} |
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# |
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# Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been |
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# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the |
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# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, |
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# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. |
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# |
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DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'5'} |
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# kernel default dirty buffer age |
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DEF_AGE=${DEF_AGE:-'30'} |
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DEF_UPDATE=${DEF_UPDATE:-'5'} |
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DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'10'} |
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DEF_DIRTY_RATIO=${DEF_DIRTY_RATIO:-'40'} |
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DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER=${DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER:-'15'} |
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DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL=${DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL:-'30'} |
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DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL=${DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL:-'1'} |
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# This must be adjusted manually to the value of HZ in the running kernel |
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# on 2.4, until the XFS people change their 2.4 external interfaces to work in |
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# centisecs. This can be automated, but it's a work in progress that still needs |
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# some fixes. On 2.6 kernels, XFS uses USER_HZ instead of HZ for external |
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# interfaces, and that is currently always set to 100. So you don't need to |
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# change this on 2.6. |
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XFS_HZ=${XFS_HZ:-'100'} |
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############################################################################# |
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KLEVEL="$(uname -r | |
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{ |
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IFS='.' read a b c |
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echo $a.$b |
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} |
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)" |
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case "$KLEVEL" in |
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"2.4"|"2.6") |
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;; |
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*) |
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echo "Unhandled kernel version: $KLEVEL ('uname -r' = '$(uname -r)')" >&2 |
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exit 1 |
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;; |
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esac |
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if [ ! -e /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ] ; then |
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echo "Kernel is not patched with laptop_mode patch." >&2 |
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exit 1 |
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fi |
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if [ ! -w /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ] ; then |
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echo "You do not have enough privileges to enable laptop_mode." >&2 |
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exit 1 |
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fi |
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# Remove an option (the first parameter) of the form option=<number> from |
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# a mount options string (the rest of the parameters). |
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parse_mount_opts () { |
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OPT="$1" |
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shift |
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echo ",$*," | sed \ |
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-e 's/,'"$OPT"'=[0-9]*,/,/g' \ |
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-e 's/,,*/,/g' \ |
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-e 's/^,//' \ |
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-e 's/,$//' |
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} |
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# Remove an option (the first parameter) without any arguments from |
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# a mount option string (the rest of the parameters). |
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parse_nonumber_mount_opts () { |
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OPT="$1" |
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shift |
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echo ",$*," | sed \ |
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-e 's/,'"$OPT"',/,/g' \ |
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-e 's/,,*/,/g' \ |
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-e 's/^,//' \ |
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-e 's/,$//' |
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} |
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# Find out the state of a yes/no option (e.g. "atime"/"noatime") in |
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# fstab for a given filesystem, and use this state to replace the |
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# value of the option in another mount options string. The device |
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# is the first argument, the option name the second, and the default |
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# value the third. The remainder is the mount options string. |
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# |
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# Example: |
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# parse_yesno_opts_wfstab /dev/hda1 atime atime defaults,noatime |
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# |
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# If fstab contains, say, "rw" for this filesystem, then the result |
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# will be "defaults,atime". |
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parse_yesno_opts_wfstab () { |
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L_DEV="$1" |
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OPT="$2" |
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DEF_OPT="$3" |
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shift 3 |
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L_OPTS="$*" |
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PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_nonumber_mount_opts $OPT $L_OPTS)" |
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PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_nonumber_mount_opts no$OPT $PARSEDOPTS1)" |
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# Watch for a default atime in fstab |
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FSTAB_OPTS="$(awk '$1 == "'$L_DEV'" { print $4 }' /etc/fstab)" |
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if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "$OPT" > /dev/null ; then |
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# option specified in fstab: extract the value and use it |
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if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "no$OPT" > /dev/null ; then |
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echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,no$OPT" |
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else |
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# no$OPT not found -- so we must have $OPT. |
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echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT" |
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fi |
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else |
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# option not specified in fstab -- choose the default. |
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echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$DEF_OPT" |
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fi |
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} |
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# Find out the state of a numbered option (e.g. "commit=NNN") in |
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# fstab for a given filesystem, and use this state to replace the |
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# value of the option in another mount options string. The device |
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# is the first argument, and the option name the second. The |
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# remainder is the mount options string in which the replacement |
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# must be done. |
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# |
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# Example: |
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# parse_mount_opts_wfstab /dev/hda1 commit defaults,commit=7 |
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# |
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# If fstab contains, say, "commit=3,rw" for this filesystem, then the |
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# result will be "rw,commit=3". |
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parse_mount_opts_wfstab () { |
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L_DEV="$1" |
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OPT="$2" |
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shift 2 |
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L_OPTS="$*" |
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PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_mount_opts $OPT $L_OPTS)" |
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# Watch for a default commit in fstab |
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FSTAB_OPTS="$(awk '$1 == "'$L_DEV'" { print $4 }' /etc/fstab)" |
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if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "$OPT=" > /dev/null ; then |
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# option specified in fstab: extract the value, and use it |
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echo -n "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT=" |
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echo ",$FSTAB_OPTS," | sed \ |
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-e 's/.*,'"$OPT"'=//' \ |
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-e 's/,.*//' |
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else |
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# option not specified in fstab: set it to 0 |
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echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT=0" |
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fi |
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} |
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deduce_fstype () { |
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MP="$1" |
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# My root filesystem unfortunately has |
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# type "unknown" in /etc/mtab. If we encounter |
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# "unknown", we try to get the type from fstab. |
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cat /etc/fstab | |
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grep -v '^#' | |
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while read FSTAB_DEV FSTAB_MP FSTAB_FST FSTAB_OPTS FSTAB_DUMP FSTAB_DUMP ; do |
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if [ "$FSTAB_MP" = "$MP" ]; then |
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echo $FSTAB_FST |
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exit 0 |
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fi |
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done |
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} |
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if [ $DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME -eq 1 ] ; then |
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NOATIME_OPT=",noatime" |
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fi |
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case "$1" in |
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start) |
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AGE=$((100*$MAX_AGE)) |
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XFS_AGE=$(($XFS_HZ*$MAX_AGE)) |
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echo -n "Starting laptop_mode" |
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|
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if [ -d /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf ] ; then |
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# (For 2.4 and early 2.6.) |
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# This only needs to be set, not reset -- it is only used when |
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# laptop mode is enabled. |
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echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf/lm_flush_age |
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echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_sync_interval |
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elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_age_buffer ] ; then |
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# (A couple of early 2.6 laptop mode patches had these.) |
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# The same goes for these. |
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echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_age_buffer |
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echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_sync_interval |
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elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer ] ; then |
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# (2.6.6) |
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# But not for these -- they are also used in normal |
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# operation. |
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echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer |
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echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/sync_interval |
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elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs ] ; then |
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# (2.6.7 upwards) |
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# And not for these either. These are in centisecs, |
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# not USER_HZ, so we have to use $AGE, not $XFS_AGE. |
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echo $AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs |
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echo $AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centisecs |
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echo 3000 > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfsbufd_centisecs |
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fi |
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|
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case "$KLEVEL" in |
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"2.4") |
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echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode |
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echo "30 500 0 0 $AGE $AGE 60 20 0" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush |
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;; |
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"2.6") |
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echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode |
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echo "$AGE" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs |
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echo "$AGE" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs |
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echo "$DIRTY_RATIO" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio |
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echo "$DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio |
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;; |
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esac |
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if [ $DO_REMOUNTS -eq 1 ]; then |
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cat /etc/mtab | while read DEV MP FST OPTS DUMP PASS ; do |
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PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_mount_opts "$OPTS")" |
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if [ "$FST" = 'unknown' ]; then |
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FST=$(deduce_fstype $MP) |
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fi |
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case "$FST" in |
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"ext3"|"reiserfs") |
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PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_mount_opts commit "$OPTS")" |
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mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$PARSEDOPTS,commit=$MAX_AGE$NOATIME_OPT |
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;; |
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"xfs") |
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mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$OPTS$NOATIME_OPT |
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;; |
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esac |
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if [ -b $DEV ] ; then |
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blockdev --setra $(($READAHEAD * 2)) $DEV |
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fi |
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done |
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fi |
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if [ $DO_HD -eq 1 ] ; then |
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for THISHD in $HD ; do |
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/sbin/hdparm -S $BATT_HD $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1 |
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/sbin/hdparm -B 1 $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1 |
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done |
|
fi |
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if [ $DO_CPU -eq 1 -a -e /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq ]; then |
|
if [ $CPU_MAXFREQ = 'slowest' ]; then |
|
CPU_MAXFREQ=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq` |
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fi |
|
echo $CPU_MAXFREQ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq |
|
fi |
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echo "." |
|
;; |
|
stop) |
|
U_AGE=$((100*$DEF_UPDATE)) |
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B_AGE=$((100*$DEF_AGE)) |
|
echo -n "Stopping laptop_mode" |
|
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode |
|
if [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer -a ! -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_age_buffer ] ; then |
|
# These need to be restored, if there are no lm_*. |
|
echo $(($XFS_HZ*$DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER)) > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer |
|
echo $(($XFS_HZ*$DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL)) > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/sync_interval |
|
elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs ] ; then |
|
# These need to be restored as well. |
|
echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER)) > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs |
|
echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL)) > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centisecs |
|
echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL)) > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfsbufd_centisecs |
|
fi |
|
case "$KLEVEL" in |
|
"2.4") |
|
echo "30 500 0 0 $U_AGE $B_AGE 60 20 0" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush |
|
;; |
|
"2.6") |
|
echo "$U_AGE" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs |
|
echo "$B_AGE" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs |
|
echo "$DEF_DIRTY_RATIO" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio |
|
echo "$DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO" > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio |
|
;; |
|
esac |
|
if [ $DO_REMOUNTS -eq 1 ] ; then |
|
cat /etc/mtab | while read DEV MP FST OPTS DUMP PASS ; do |
|
# Reset commit and atime options to defaults. |
|
if [ "$FST" = 'unknown' ]; then |
|
FST=$(deduce_fstype $MP) |
|
fi |
|
case "$FST" in |
|
"ext3"|"reiserfs") |
|
PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_mount_opts_wfstab $DEV commit $OPTS)" |
|
PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_yesno_opts_wfstab $DEV atime atime $PARSEDOPTS)" |
|
mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$PARSEDOPTS |
|
;; |
|
"xfs") |
|
PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_yesno_opts_wfstab $DEV atime atime $OPTS)" |
|
mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$PARSEDOPTS |
|
;; |
|
esac |
|
if [ -b $DEV ] ; then |
|
blockdev --setra 256 $DEV |
|
fi |
|
done |
|
fi |
|
if [ $DO_HD -eq 1 ] ; then |
|
for THISHD in $HD ; do |
|
/sbin/hdparm -S $AC_HD $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1 |
|
/sbin/hdparm -B 255 $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1 |
|
done |
|
fi |
|
if [ $DO_CPU -eq 1 -a -e /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq ]; then |
|
echo `cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq` > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq |
|
fi |
|
echo "." |
|
;; |
|
*) |
|
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" 2>&1 |
|
exit 1 |
|
;; |
|
|
|
esac |
|
|
|
exit 0 |
|
|
|
|
|
ACPI integration |
|
---------------- |
|
|
|
Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will |
|
kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. The part that |
|
automatically disables laptop mode when the battery is low was |
|
written by Jan Topinski. |
|
|
|
/etc/acpi/events/ac_adapter:: |
|
|
|
event=ac_adapter |
|
action=/etc/acpi/actions/ac.sh %e |
|
|
|
/etc/acpi/events/battery:: |
|
|
|
event=battery.* |
|
action=/etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh %e |
|
|
|
/etc/acpi/actions/ac.sh:: |
|
|
|
#!/bin/bash |
|
|
|
# ac on/offline event handler |
|
|
|
status=`awk '/^state: / { print $2 }' /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/$2/state` |
|
|
|
case $status in |
|
"on-line") |
|
/sbin/laptop_mode stop |
|
exit 0 |
|
;; |
|
"off-line") |
|
/sbin/laptop_mode start |
|
exit 0 |
|
;; |
|
esac |
|
|
|
|
|
/etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh:: |
|
|
|
#! /bin/bash |
|
|
|
# Automatically disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out. |
|
|
|
BATT_INFO=/proc/acpi/battery/$2/state |
|
|
|
if [[ -f /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ]] |
|
then |
|
LM=`cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode` |
|
if [[ $LM -gt 0 ]] |
|
then |
|
if [[ -f $BATT_INFO ]] |
|
then |
|
# Source the config file only now that we know we need |
|
if [ -f /etc/default/laptop-mode ] ; then |
|
# Debian |
|
. /etc/default/laptop-mode |
|
elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode ] ; then |
|
# Others |
|
. /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode |
|
fi |
|
MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=${MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES:-'10'} |
|
|
|
ACTION="`cat $BATT_INFO | grep charging | cut -c 26-`" |
|
if [[ ACTION -eq "discharging" ]] |
|
then |
|
PRESENT_RATE=`cat $BATT_INFO | grep "present rate:" | sed "s/.* \([0-9][0-9]* \).*/\1/" ` |
|
REMAINING=`cat $BATT_INFO | grep "remaining capacity:" | sed "s/.* \([0-9][0-9]* \).*/\1/" ` |
|
fi |
|
if (($REMAINING * 60 / $PRESENT_RATE < $MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES)) |
|
then |
|
/sbin/laptop_mode stop |
|
fi |
|
else |
|
logger -p daemon.warning "You are using laptop mode and your battery interface $BATT_INFO is missing. This may lead to loss of data when the battery runs out. Check kernel ACPI support and /proc/acpi/battery folder, and edit /etc/acpi/battery.sh to set BATT_INFO to the correct path." |
|
fi |
|
fi |
|
fi |
|
|
|
|
|
Monitoring tool |
|
--------------- |
|
|
|
Bartek Kania submitted this, it can be used to measure how much time your disk |
|
spends spun up/down. See tools/laptop/dslm/dslm.c
|
|
|