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  2 How to conserve battery power using laptop-mod      2 How to conserve battery power using laptop-mode
  3 ==============================================      3 ===============================================
  4                                                     4 
  5 Document Author: Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk)       5 Document Author: Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk)
  6                                                     6 
  7 Date created: January 2, 2004                       7 Date created: January 2, 2004
  8                                                     8 
  9 Last modified: December 06, 2004                    9 Last modified: December 06, 2004
 10                                                    10 
 11 Introduction                                       11 Introduction
 12 ------------                                       12 ------------
 13                                                    13 
 14 Laptop mode is used to minimize the time that      14 Laptop mode is used to minimize the time that the hard disk needs to be spun up,
 15 to conserve battery power on laptops. It has b     15 to conserve battery power on laptops. It has been reported to cause significant
 16 power savings.                                     16 power savings.
 17                                                    17 
 18 .. Contents                                        18 .. Contents
 19                                                    19 
 20    * Introduction                                  20    * Introduction
 21    * Installation                                  21    * Installation
 22    * Caveats                                       22    * Caveats
 23    * The Details                                   23    * The Details
 24    * Tips & Tricks                                 24    * Tips & Tricks
 25    * Control script                                25    * Control script
 26    * ACPI integration                              26    * ACPI integration
 27    * Monitoring tool                               27    * Monitoring tool
 28                                                    28 
 29                                                    29 
 30 Installation                                       30 Installation
 31 ------------                                       31 ------------
 32                                                    32 
 33 To use laptop mode, you don't need to set any      33 To use laptop mode, you don't need to set any kernel configuration options
 34 or anything. Simply install all the files incl     34 or anything. Simply install all the files included in this document, and
 35 laptop mode will automatically be started when     35 laptop mode will automatically be started when you're on battery. For
 36 your convenience, a tarball containing an inst     36 your convenience, a tarball containing an installer can be downloaded at:
 37                                                    37 
 38         http://www.samwel.tk/laptop_mode/lapto     38         http://www.samwel.tk/laptop_mode/laptop_mode/
 39                                                    39 
 40 To configure laptop mode, you need to edit the     40 To configure laptop mode, you need to edit the configuration file, which is
 41 located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian-     41 located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian-based systems, or in
 42 /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on other systems.       42 /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on other systems.
 43                                                    43 
 44 Unfortunately, automatic enabling of laptop mo     44 Unfortunately, automatic enabling of laptop mode does not work for
 45 laptops that don't have ACPI. On those laptops     45 laptops that don't have ACPI. On those laptops, you need to start laptop
 46 mode manually. To start laptop mode, run "lapt     46 mode manually. To start laptop mode, run "laptop_mode start", and to
 47 stop it, run "laptop_mode stop". (Note: The la     47 stop it, run "laptop_mode stop". (Note: The laptop mode tools package now
 48 has experimental support for APM, you might wa     48 has experimental support for APM, you might want to try that first.)
 49                                                    49 
 50                                                    50 
 51 Caveats                                            51 Caveats
 52 -------                                            52 -------
 53                                                    53 
 54 * The downside of laptop mode is that you have     54 * The downside of laptop mode is that you have a chance of losing up to 10
 55   minutes of work. If you cannot afford this,      55   minutes of work. If you cannot afford this, don't use it! The supplied ACPI
 56   scripts automatically turn off laptop mode w     56   scripts automatically turn off laptop mode when the battery almost runs out,
 57   so that you won't lose any data at the end o     57   so that you won't lose any data at the end of your battery life.
 58                                                    58 
 59 * Most desktop hard drives have a very limited     59 * Most desktop hard drives have a very limited lifetime measured in spindown
 60   cycles, typically about 50.000 times (it's u     60   cycles, typically about 50.000 times (it's usually listed on the spec sheet).
 61   Check your drive's rating, and don't wear do     61   Check your drive's rating, and don't wear down your drive's lifetime if you
 62   don't need to.                                   62   don't need to.
 63                                                    63 
 64 * If you mount some of your ext3/reiserfs file     64 * If you mount some of your ext3/reiserfs filesystems with the -n option, then
 65   the control script will not be able to remou     65   the control script will not be able to remount them correctly. You must set
 66   DO_REMOUNTS=0 in the control script, otherwi     66   DO_REMOUNTS=0 in the control script, otherwise it will remount them with the
 67   wrong options -- or it will fail because it      67   wrong options -- or it will fail because it cannot write to /etc/mtab.
 68                                                    68 
 69 * If you have your filesystems listed as type      69 * If you have your filesystems listed as type "auto" in fstab, like I did, then
 70   the control script will not recognize them a     70   the control script will not recognize them as filesystems that need remounting.
 71   You must list the filesystems with their tru     71   You must list the filesystems with their true type instead.
 72                                                    72 
 73 * It has been reported that some versions of t     73 * It has been reported that some versions of the mutt mail client use file access
 74   times to determine whether a folder contains     74   times to determine whether a folder contains new mail. If you use mutt and
 75   experience this, you must disable the noatim     75   experience this, you must disable the noatime remounting by setting the option
 76   DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME to 0 in the configuration     76   DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME to 0 in the configuration file.
 77                                                    77 
 78                                                    78 
 79 The Details                                        79 The Details
 80 -----------                                        80 -----------
 81                                                    81 
 82 Laptop mode is controlled by the knob /proc/sy     82 Laptop mode is controlled by the knob /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. This knob is
 83 present for all kernels that have the laptop m     83 present for all kernels that have the laptop mode patch, regardless of any
 84 configuration options. When the knob is set, a     84 configuration options. When the knob is set, any physical disk I/O (that might
 85 have caused the hard disk to spin up) causes L     85 have caused the hard disk to spin up) causes Linux to flush all dirty blocks. The
 86 result of this is that after a disk has spun d     86 result of this is that after a disk has spun down, it will not be spun up
 87 anymore to write dirty blocks, because those b     87 anymore to write dirty blocks, because those blocks had already been written
 88 immediately after the most recent read operati     88 immediately after the most recent read operation. The value of the laptop_mode
 89 knob determines the time between the occurrenc     89 knob determines the time between the occurrence of disk I/O and when the flush
 90 is triggered. A sensible value for the knob is     90 is triggered. A sensible value for the knob is 5 seconds. Setting the knob to
 91 0 disables laptop mode.                            91 0 disables laptop mode.
 92                                                    92 
 93 To increase the effectiveness of the laptop_mo     93 To increase the effectiveness of the laptop_mode strategy, the laptop_mode
 94 control script increases dirty_expire_centisec     94 control script increases dirty_expire_centisecs and dirty_writeback_centisecs in
 95 /proc/sys/vm to about 10 minutes (by default),     95 /proc/sys/vm to about 10 minutes (by default), which means that pages that are
 96 dirtied are not forced to be written to disk a     96 dirtied are not forced to be written to disk as often. The control script also
 97 changes the dirty background ratio, so that ba     97 changes the dirty background ratio, so that background writeback of dirty pages
 98 is not done anymore. Combined with a higher co     98 is not done anymore. Combined with a higher commit value (also 10 minutes) for
 99 ext3 or ReiserFS filesystems (also done automa     99 ext3 or ReiserFS filesystems (also done automatically by the control script),
100 this results in concentration of disk activity    100 this results in concentration of disk activity in a small time interval which
101 occurs only once every 10 minutes, or whenever    101 occurs only once every 10 minutes, or whenever the disk is forced to spin up by
102 a cache miss. The disk can then be spun down i    102 a cache miss. The disk can then be spun down in the periods of inactivity.
103                                                   103 
104                                                   104 
105 Configuration                                     105 Configuration
106 -------------                                     106 -------------
107                                                   107 
108 The laptop mode configuration file is located     108 The laptop mode configuration file is located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on
109 Debian-based systems, or in /etc/sysconfig/lap    109 Debian-based systems, or in /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on other systems. It
110 contains the following options:                   110 contains the following options:
111                                                   111 
112 MAX_AGE:                                          112 MAX_AGE:
113                                                   113 
114 Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindo    114 Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are
115 comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible th    115 comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this
116 amount of work if your battery fails while you    116 amount of work if your battery fails while you're in laptop mode.
117                                                   117 
118 MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES:                          118 MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES:
119                                                   119 
120 Automatically disable laptop mode if the remai    120 Automatically disable laptop mode if the remaining number of minutes of
121 battery power is less than this value. Default    121 battery power is less than this value. Default is 10 minutes.
122                                                   122 
123 AC_HD/BATT_HD:                                    123 AC_HD/BATT_HD:
124                                                   124 
125 The idle timeout that should be set on your ha    125 The idle timeout that should be set on your hard drive when laptop mode
126 is active (BATT_HD) and when it is not active     126 is active (BATT_HD) and when it is not active (AC_HD). The defaults are
127 20 seconds (value 4) for BATT_HD  and 2 hours     127 20 seconds (value 4) for BATT_HD  and 2 hours (value 244) for AC_HD. The
128 possible values are those listed in the manual    128 possible values are those listed in the manual page for "hdparm" for the
129 "-S" option.                                      129 "-S" option.
130                                                   130 
131 HD:                                               131 HD:
132                                                   132 
133 The devices for which the spindown timeout sho    133 The devices for which the spindown timeout should be adjusted by laptop mode.
134 Default is /dev/hda. If you specify multiple d    134 Default is /dev/hda. If you specify multiple devices, separate them by a space.
135                                                   135 
136 READAHEAD:                                        136 READAHEAD:
137                                                   137 
138 Disk readahead, in 512-byte sectors, while lap    138 Disk readahead, in 512-byte sectors, while laptop mode is active. A large
139 readahead can prevent disk accesses for things    139 readahead can prevent disk accesses for things like executable pages (which are
140 loaded on demand while the application execute    140 loaded on demand while the application executes) and sequentially accessed data
141 (MP3s).                                           141 (MP3s).
142                                                   142 
143 DO_REMOUNTS:                                      143 DO_REMOUNTS:
144                                                   144 
145 The control script automatically remounts any     145 The control script automatically remounts any mounted journaled filesystems
146 with appropriate commit interval options. When    146 with appropriate commit interval options. When this option is set to 0, this
147 feature is disabled.                              147 feature is disabled.
148                                                   148 
149 DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME:                               149 DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME:
150                                                   150 
151 When remounting, should the filesystems be rem    151 When remounting, should the filesystems be remounted with the noatime option?
152 Normally, this is set to "1" (enabled), but th    152 Normally, this is set to "1" (enabled), but there may be programs that require
153 access time recording.                            153 access time recording.
154                                                   154 
155 DIRTY_RATIO:                                      155 DIRTY_RATIO:
156                                                   156 
157 The percentage of memory that is allowed to co    157 The percentage of memory that is allowed to contain "dirty" or unsaved data
158 before a writeback is forced, while laptop mod    158 before a writeback is forced, while laptop mode is active. Corresponds to
159 the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio sysctl.              159 the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio sysctl.
160                                                   160 
161 DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:                           161 DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:
162                                                   162 
163 The percentage of memory that is allowed to co    163 The percentage of memory that is allowed to contain "dirty" or unsaved data
164 after a forced writeback is done due to an exc    164 after a forced writeback is done due to an exceeding of DIRTY_RATIO. Set
165 this nice and low. This corresponds to the /pr    165 this nice and low. This corresponds to the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
166 sysctl.                                           166 sysctl.
167                                                   167 
168 Note that the behaviour of dirty_background_ra    168 Note that the behaviour of dirty_background_ratio is quite different
169 when laptop mode is active and when it isn't.     169 when laptop mode is active and when it isn't. When laptop mode is inactive,
170 dirty_background_ratio is the threshold percen    170 dirty_background_ratio is the threshold percentage at which background writeouts
171 start taking place. When laptop mode is active    171 start taking place. When laptop mode is active, however, background writeouts
172 are disabled, and the dirty_background_ratio o    172 are disabled, and the dirty_background_ratio only determines how much writeback
173 is done when dirty_ratio is reached.              173 is done when dirty_ratio is reached.
174                                                   174 
175 DO_CPU:                                           175 DO_CPU:
176                                                   176 
177 Enable CPU frequency scaling when in laptop mo    177 Enable CPU frequency scaling when in laptop mode. (Requires CPUFreq to be setup.
178 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst f    178 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst for more info. Disabled by default.)
179                                                   179 
180 CPU_MAXFREQ:                                      180 CPU_MAXFREQ:
181                                                   181 
182 When on battery, what is the maximum CPU speed    182 When on battery, what is the maximum CPU speed that the system should use? Legal
183 values are "slowest" for the slowest speed tha    183 values are "slowest" for the slowest speed that your CPU is able to operate at,
184 or a value listed in /sys/devices/system/cpu/c    184 or a value listed in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies.
185                                                   185 
186                                                   186 
187 Tips & Tricks                                     187 Tips & Tricks
188 -------------                                     188 -------------
189                                                   189 
190 * Bartek Kania reports getting up to 50 minute    190 * Bartek Kania reports getting up to 50 minutes of extra battery life (on top
191   of his regular 3 to 3.5 hours) using a spind    191   of his regular 3 to 3.5 hours) using a spindown time of 5 seconds (BATT_HD=1).
192                                                   192 
193 * You can spin down the disk while playing MP3    193 * You can spin down the disk while playing MP3, by setting disk readahead
194   to 8MB (READAHEAD=16384). Effectively, the d    194   to 8MB (READAHEAD=16384). Effectively, the disk will read a complete MP3 at
195   once, and will then spin down while the MP3     195   once, and will then spin down while the MP3 is playing. (Thanks to Bartek
196   Kania.)                                         196   Kania.)
197                                                   197 
198 * Drew Scott Daniels observed: "I don't know w    198 * Drew Scott Daniels observed: "I don't know why, but when I decrease the number
199   of colours that my display uses it consumes     199   of colours that my display uses it consumes less battery power. I've seen
200   this on powerbooks too. I hope that this is     200   this on powerbooks too. I hope that this is a piece of information that
201   might be useful to the Laptop Mode patch or     201   might be useful to the Laptop Mode patch or its users."
202                                                   202 
203 * In syslog.conf, you can prefix entries with     203 * In syslog.conf, you can prefix entries with a dash `-` to omit syncing the
204   file after every logging. When you're using     204   file after every logging. When you're using laptop-mode and your disk doesn't
205   spin down, this is a likely culprit.            205   spin down, this is a likely culprit.
206                                                   206 
207 * Richard Atterer observed that laptop mode do    207 * Richard Atterer observed that laptop mode does not work well with noflushd
208   (http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/), it seems    208   (http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/), it seems that noflushd prevents laptop-mode
209   from doing its thing.                           209   from doing its thing.
210                                                   210 
211 * If you're worried about your data, you might    211 * If you're worried about your data, you might want to consider using a USB
212   memory stick or something like that as a "wo    212   memory stick or something like that as a "working area". (Be aware though
213   that flash memory can only handle a limited     213   that flash memory can only handle a limited number of writes, and overuse
214   may wear out your memory stick pretty quickl    214   may wear out your memory stick pretty quickly. Do _not_ use journalling
215   filesystems on flash memory sticks.)            215   filesystems on flash memory sticks.)
216                                                   216 
217                                                   217 
218 Configuration file for control and ACPI batter    218 Configuration file for control and ACPI battery scripts
219 ----------------------------------------------    219 -------------------------------------------------------
220                                                   220 
221 This allows the tunables to be changed for the    221 This allows the tunables to be changed for the scripts via an external
222 configuration file                                222 configuration file
223                                                   223 
224 It should be installed as /etc/default/laptop-    224 It should be installed as /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian, and as
225 /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on Red Hat, SUSE, M    225 /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode on Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake, and other work-alikes.
226                                                   226 
227 Config file::                                     227 Config file::
228                                                   228 
229   # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive sp    229   # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are
230   # comfortable with. Worst case, it's possibl    230   # comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this
231   # amount of work if your battery fails you w    231   # amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode.
232   #MAX_AGE=600                                    232   #MAX_AGE=600
233                                                   233 
234   # Automatically disable laptop mode when the    234   # Automatically disable laptop mode when the number of minutes of battery
235   # that you have left goes below this thresho    235   # that you have left goes below this threshold.
236   MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10                      236   MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10
237                                                   237 
238   # Read-ahead, in 512-byte sectors. You can s    238   # Read-ahead, in 512-byte sectors. You can spin down the disk while playing MP3/OGG
239   # by setting the disk readahead to 8MB (READ    239   # by setting the disk readahead to 8MB (READAHEAD=16384). Effectively, the disk
240   # will read a complete MP3 at once, and will    240   # will read a complete MP3 at once, and will then spin down while the MP3/OGG is
241   # playing.                                      241   # playing.
242   #READAHEAD=4096                                 242   #READAHEAD=4096
243                                                   243 
244   # Shall we remount journaled fs. with approp    244   # Shall we remount journaled fs. with appropriate commit interval? (1=yes)
245   #DO_REMOUNTS=1                                  245   #DO_REMOUNTS=1
246                                                   246 
247   # And shall we add the "noatime" option to t    247   # And shall we add the "noatime" option to that as well? (1=yes)
248   #DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME=1                           248   #DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME=1
249                                                   249 
250   # Dirty synchronous ratio.  At this percenta    250   # Dirty synchronous ratio.  At this percentage of dirty pages the process
251   # which                                         251   # which
252   # calls write() does its own writeback          252   # calls write() does its own writeback
253   #DIRTY_RATIO=40                                 253   #DIRTY_RATIO=40
254                                                   254 
255   #                                               255   #
256   # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent    256   # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent.  Once DIRTY_RATIO has been
257   # exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher thr    257   # exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the
258   # amount of dirty memory to dirty_background    258   # amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio.  Set this nice and low,
259   # so once some writeout has commenced, we do    259   # so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it.
260   #                                               260   #
261   #DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5                       261   #DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5
262                                                   262 
263   # kernel default dirty buffer age               263   # kernel default dirty buffer age
264   #DEF_AGE=30                                     264   #DEF_AGE=30
265   #DEF_UPDATE=5                                   265   #DEF_UPDATE=5
266   #DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=10                  266   #DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=10
267   #DEF_DIRTY_RATIO=40                             267   #DEF_DIRTY_RATIO=40
268   #DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER=15                          268   #DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER=15
269   #DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL=30                       269   #DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL=30
270   #DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL=1                        270   #DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL=1
271                                                   271 
272   # This must be adjusted manually to the valu    272   # This must be adjusted manually to the value of HZ in the running kernel
273   # on 2.4, until the XFS people change their     273   # on 2.4, until the XFS people change their 2.4 external interfaces to work in
274   # centisecs. This can be automated, but it's    274   # centisecs. This can be automated, but it's a work in progress that still
275   # needs# some fixes. On 2.6 kernels, XFS use    275   # needs# some fixes. On 2.6 kernels, XFS uses USER_HZ instead of HZ for
276   # external interfaces, and that is currently    276   # external interfaces, and that is currently always set to 100. So you don't
277   # need to change this on 2.6.                   277   # need to change this on 2.6.
278   #XFS_HZ=100                                     278   #XFS_HZ=100
279                                                   279 
280   # Should the maximum CPU frequency be adjust    280   # Should the maximum CPU frequency be adjusted down while on battery?
281   # Requires CPUFreq to be setup.                 281   # Requires CPUFreq to be setup.
282   # See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.r    282   # See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst for more info
283   #DO_CPU=0                                       283   #DO_CPU=0
284                                                   284 
285   # When on battery what is the maximum CPU sp    285   # When on battery what is the maximum CPU speed that the system should
286   # use? Legal values are "slowest" for the sl    286   # use? Legal values are "slowest" for the slowest speed that your
287   # CPU is able to operate at, or a value list    287   # CPU is able to operate at, or a value listed in:
288   # /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scali    288   # /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
289   # Only applicable if DO_CPU=1.                  289   # Only applicable if DO_CPU=1.
290   #CPU_MAXFREQ=slowest                            290   #CPU_MAXFREQ=slowest
291                                                   291 
292   # Idle timeout for your hard drive (man hdpa    292   # Idle timeout for your hard drive (man hdparm for valid values, -S option)
293   # Default is 2 hours on AC (AC_HD=244) and 2    293   # Default is 2 hours on AC (AC_HD=244) and 20 seconds for battery (BATT_HD=4).
294   #AC_HD=244                                      294   #AC_HD=244
295   #BATT_HD=4                                      295   #BATT_HD=4
296                                                   296 
297   # The drives for which to adjust the idle ti    297   # The drives for which to adjust the idle timeout. Separate them by a space,
298   # e.g. HD="/dev/hda /dev/hdb".                  298   # e.g. HD="/dev/hda /dev/hdb".
299   #HD="/dev/hda"                                  299   #HD="/dev/hda"
300                                                   300 
301   # Set the spindown timeout on a hard drive?     301   # Set the spindown timeout on a hard drive?
302   #DO_HD=1                                        302   #DO_HD=1
303                                                   303 
304                                                   304 
305 Control script                                    305 Control script
306 --------------                                    306 --------------
307                                                   307 
308 Please note that this control script works for    308 Please note that this control script works for the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 series (thanks
309 to Kiko Piris).                                   309 to Kiko Piris).
310                                                   310 
311 Control script::                                  311 Control script::
312                                                   312 
313   #!/bin/bash                                     313   #!/bin/bash
314                                                   314 
315   # start or stop laptop_mode, best run by a p    315   # start or stop laptop_mode, best run by a power management daemon when
316   # ac gets connected/disconnected from a lapt    316   # ac gets connected/disconnected from a laptop
317   #                                               317   #
318   # install as /sbin/laptop_mode                  318   # install as /sbin/laptop_mode
319   #                                               319   #
320   # Contributors to this script:   Kiko Piris     320   # Contributors to this script:   Kiko Piris
321   #                              Bart Samwel      321   #                              Bart Samwel
322   #                              Micha Feigin     322   #                              Micha Feigin
323   #                              Andrew Morton    323   #                              Andrew Morton
324   #                              Herve Eychenn    324   #                              Herve Eychenne
325   #                              Dax Kelson       325   #                              Dax Kelson
326   #                                               326   #
327   # Original Linux 2.4 version by: Jens Axboe     327   # Original Linux 2.4 version by: Jens Axboe
328                                                   328 
329   ############################################    329   #############################################################################
330                                                   330 
331   # Source config                                 331   # Source config
332   if [ -f /etc/default/laptop-mode ] ; then       332   if [ -f /etc/default/laptop-mode ] ; then
333         # Debian                                  333         # Debian
334         . /etc/default/laptop-mode                334         . /etc/default/laptop-mode
335   elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode ] ; the    335   elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode ] ; then
336         # Others                                  336         # Others
337           . /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode            337           . /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode
338   fi                                              338   fi
339                                                   339 
340   # Don't raise an error if the config file is    340   # Don't raise an error if the config file is incomplete
341   # set defaults instead:                         341   # set defaults instead:
342                                                   342 
343   # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive sp    343   # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are
344   # comfortable with. Worst case, it's possibl    344   # comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this
345   # amount of work if your battery fails you w    345   # amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode.
346   MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'}                       346   MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'}
347                                                   347 
348   # Read-ahead, in kilobytes                      348   # Read-ahead, in kilobytes
349   READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'}                  349   READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'}
350                                                   350 
351   # Shall we remount journaled fs. with approp    351   # Shall we remount journaled fs. with appropriate commit interval? (1=yes)
352   DO_REMOUNTS=${DO_REMOUNTS:-'1'}                 352   DO_REMOUNTS=${DO_REMOUNTS:-'1'}
353                                                   353 
354   # And shall we add the "noatime" option to t    354   # And shall we add the "noatime" option to that as well? (1=yes)
355   DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME=${DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME:-'1'    355   DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME=${DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME:-'1'}
356                                                   356 
357   # Shall we adjust the idle timeout on a hard    357   # Shall we adjust the idle timeout on a hard drive?
358   DO_HD=${DO_HD:-'1'}                             358   DO_HD=${DO_HD:-'1'}
359                                                   359 
360   # Adjust idle timeout on which hard drive?      360   # Adjust idle timeout on which hard drive?
361   HD="${HD:-'/dev/hda'}"                          361   HD="${HD:-'/dev/hda'}"
362                                                   362 
363   # spindown time for HD (hdparm -S values)       363   # spindown time for HD (hdparm -S values)
364   AC_HD=${AC_HD:-'244'}                           364   AC_HD=${AC_HD:-'244'}
365   BATT_HD=${BATT_HD:-'4'}                         365   BATT_HD=${BATT_HD:-'4'}
366                                                   366 
367   # Dirty synchronous ratio.  At this percenta    367   # Dirty synchronous ratio.  At this percentage of dirty pages the process which
368   # calls write() does its own writeback          368   # calls write() does its own writeback
369   DIRTY_RATIO=${DIRTY_RATIO:-'40'}                369   DIRTY_RATIO=${DIRTY_RATIO:-'40'}
370                                                   370 
371   # cpu frequency scaling                         371   # cpu frequency scaling
372   # See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.r    372   # See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst for more info
373   DO_CPU=${CPU_MANAGE:-'0'}                       373   DO_CPU=${CPU_MANAGE:-'0'}
374   CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'}           374   CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'}
375                                                   375 
376   #                                               376   #
377   # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent    377   # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent.  Once DIRTY_RATIO has been
378   # exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher thr    378   # exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the
379   # amount of dirty memory to dirty_background    379   # amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio.  Set this nice and low,
380   # so once some writeout has commenced, we do    380   # so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it.
381   #                                               381   #
382   DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RA    382   DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'5'}
383                                                   383 
384   # kernel default dirty buffer age               384   # kernel default dirty buffer age
385   DEF_AGE=${DEF_AGE:-'30'}                        385   DEF_AGE=${DEF_AGE:-'30'}
386   DEF_UPDATE=${DEF_UPDATE:-'5'}                   386   DEF_UPDATE=${DEF_UPDATE:-'5'}
387   DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DEF_DIRTY_BACKG    387   DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'10'}
388   DEF_DIRTY_RATIO=${DEF_DIRTY_RATIO:-'40'}        388   DEF_DIRTY_RATIO=${DEF_DIRTY_RATIO:-'40'}
389   DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER=${DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER:-'15    389   DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER=${DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER:-'15'}
390   DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL=${DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVA    390   DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL=${DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL:-'30'}
391   DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL=${DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVA    391   DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL=${DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL:-'1'}
392                                                   392 
393   # This must be adjusted manually to the valu    393   # This must be adjusted manually to the value of HZ in the running kernel
394   # on 2.4, until the XFS people change their     394   # on 2.4, until the XFS people change their 2.4 external interfaces to work in
395   # centisecs. This can be automated, but it's    395   # centisecs. This can be automated, but it's a work in progress that still needs
396   # some fixes. On 2.6 kernels, XFS uses USER_    396   # some fixes. On 2.6 kernels, XFS uses USER_HZ instead of HZ for external
397   # interfaces, and that is currently always s    397   # interfaces, and that is currently always set to 100. So you don't need to
398   # change this on 2.6.                           398   # change this on 2.6.
399   XFS_HZ=${XFS_HZ:-'100'}                         399   XFS_HZ=${XFS_HZ:-'100'}
400                                                   400 
401   ############################################    401   #############################################################################
402                                                   402 
403   KLEVEL="$(uname -r |                            403   KLEVEL="$(uname -r |
404                {                                  404                {
405                IFS='.' read a b c                 405                IFS='.' read a b c
406                echo $a.$b                         406                echo $a.$b
407              }                                    407              }
408   )"                                              408   )"
409   case "$KLEVEL" in                               409   case "$KLEVEL" in
410         "2.4"|"2.6")                              410         "2.4"|"2.6")
411                 ;;                                411                 ;;
412         *)                                        412         *)
413                 echo "Unhandled kernel version    413                 echo "Unhandled kernel version: $KLEVEL ('uname -r' = '$(uname -r)')" >&2
414                 exit 1                            414                 exit 1
415                 ;;                                415                 ;;
416   esac                                            416   esac
417                                                   417 
418   if [ ! -e /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ] ; then     418   if [ ! -e /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ] ; then
419         echo "Kernel is not patched with lapto    419         echo "Kernel is not patched with laptop_mode patch." >&2
420         exit 1                                    420         exit 1
421   fi                                              421   fi
422                                                   422 
423   if [ ! -w /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ] ; then     423   if [ ! -w /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ] ; then
424         echo "You do not have enough privilege    424         echo "You do not have enough privileges to enable laptop_mode." >&2
425         exit 1                                    425         exit 1
426   fi                                              426   fi
427                                                   427 
428   # Remove an option (the first parameter) of     428   # Remove an option (the first parameter) of the form option=<number> from
429   # a mount options string (the rest of the pa    429   # a mount options string (the rest of the parameters).
430   parse_mount_opts () {                           430   parse_mount_opts () {
431         OPT="$1"                                  431         OPT="$1"
432         shift                                     432         shift
433         echo ",$*," | sed               \         433         echo ",$*," | sed               \
434          -e 's/,'"$OPT"'=[0-9]*,/,/g'   \         434          -e 's/,'"$OPT"'=[0-9]*,/,/g'   \
435          -e 's/,,*/,/g'                 \         435          -e 's/,,*/,/g'                 \
436          -e 's/^,//'                    \         436          -e 's/^,//'                    \
437          -e 's/,$//'                              437          -e 's/,$//'
438   }                                               438   }
439                                                   439 
440   # Remove an option (the first parameter) wit    440   # Remove an option (the first parameter) without any arguments from
441   # a mount option string (the rest of the par    441   # a mount option string (the rest of the parameters).
442   parse_nonumber_mount_opts () {                  442   parse_nonumber_mount_opts () {
443         OPT="$1"                                  443         OPT="$1"
444         shift                                     444         shift
445         echo ",$*," | sed               \         445         echo ",$*," | sed               \
446          -e 's/,'"$OPT"',/,/g'          \         446          -e 's/,'"$OPT"',/,/g'          \
447          -e 's/,,*/,/g'                 \         447          -e 's/,,*/,/g'                 \
448          -e 's/^,//'                    \         448          -e 's/^,//'                    \
449          -e 's/,$//'                              449          -e 's/,$//'
450   }                                               450   }
451                                                   451 
452   # Find out the state of a yes/no option (e.g    452   # Find out the state of a yes/no option (e.g. "atime"/"noatime") in
453   # fstab for a given filesystem, and use this    453   # fstab for a given filesystem, and use this state to replace the
454   # value of the option in another mount optio    454   # value of the option in another mount options string. The device
455   # is the first argument, the option name the    455   # is the first argument, the option name the second, and the default
456   # value the third. The remainder is the moun    456   # value the third. The remainder is the mount options string.
457   #                                               457   #
458   # Example:                                      458   # Example:
459   # parse_yesno_opts_wfstab /dev/hda1 atime at    459   # parse_yesno_opts_wfstab /dev/hda1 atime atime defaults,noatime
460   #                                               460   #
461   # If fstab contains, say, "rw" for this file    461   # If fstab contains, say, "rw" for this filesystem, then the result
462   # will be "defaults,atime".                     462   # will be "defaults,atime".
463   parse_yesno_opts_wfstab () {                    463   parse_yesno_opts_wfstab () {
464         L_DEV="$1"                                464         L_DEV="$1"
465         OPT="$2"                                  465         OPT="$2"
466         DEF_OPT="$3"                              466         DEF_OPT="$3"
467         shift 3                                   467         shift 3
468         L_OPTS="$*"                               468         L_OPTS="$*"
469         PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_nonumber_mount_op    469         PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_nonumber_mount_opts $OPT $L_OPTS)"
470         PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_nonumber_mount_op    470         PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_nonumber_mount_opts no$OPT $PARSEDOPTS1)"
471         # Watch for a default atime in fstab      471         # Watch for a default atime in fstab
472         FSTAB_OPTS="$(awk '$1 == "'$L_DEV'" {     472         FSTAB_OPTS="$(awk '$1 == "'$L_DEV'" { print $4 }' /etc/fstab)"
473         if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "$OPT" >     473         if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "$OPT" > /dev/null ; then
474                 # option specified in fstab: e    474                 # option specified in fstab: extract the value and use it
475                 if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "    475                 if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "no$OPT" > /dev/null ; then
476                         echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,no$    476                         echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,no$OPT"
477                 else                              477                 else
478                         # no$OPT not found --     478                         # no$OPT not found -- so we must have $OPT.
479                         echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OP    479                         echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT"
480                 fi                                480                 fi
481         else                                      481         else
482                 # option not specified in fsta    482                 # option not specified in fstab -- choose the default.
483                 echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$DEF_OPT"      483                 echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$DEF_OPT"
484         fi                                        484         fi
485   }                                               485   }
486                                                   486 
487   # Find out the state of a numbered option (e    487   # Find out the state of a numbered option (e.g. "commit=NNN") in
488   # fstab for a given filesystem, and use this    488   # fstab for a given filesystem, and use this state to replace the
489   # value of the option in another mount optio    489   # value of the option in another mount options string. The device
490   # is the first argument, and the option name    490   # is the first argument, and the option name the second. The
491   # remainder is the mount options string in w    491   # remainder is the mount options string in which the replacement
492   # must be done.                                 492   # must be done.
493   #                                               493   #
494   # Example:                                      494   # Example:
495   # parse_mount_opts_wfstab /dev/hda1 commit d    495   # parse_mount_opts_wfstab /dev/hda1 commit defaults,commit=7
496   #                                               496   #
497   # If fstab contains, say, "commit=3,rw" for     497   # If fstab contains, say, "commit=3,rw" for this filesystem, then the
498   # result will be "rw,commit=3".                 498   # result will be "rw,commit=3".
499   parse_mount_opts_wfstab () {                    499   parse_mount_opts_wfstab () {
500         L_DEV="$1"                                500         L_DEV="$1"
501         OPT="$2"                                  501         OPT="$2"
502         shift 2                                   502         shift 2
503         L_OPTS="$*"                               503         L_OPTS="$*"
504         PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_mount_opts $OPT $    504         PARSEDOPTS1="$(parse_mount_opts $OPT $L_OPTS)"
505         # Watch for a default commit in fstab     505         # Watch for a default commit in fstab
506         FSTAB_OPTS="$(awk '$1 == "'$L_DEV'" {     506         FSTAB_OPTS="$(awk '$1 == "'$L_DEV'" { print $4 }' /etc/fstab)"
507         if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "$OPT=" >    507         if echo "$FSTAB_OPTS" | grep "$OPT=" > /dev/null ; then
508                 # option specified in fstab: e    508                 # option specified in fstab: extract the value, and use it
509                 echo -n "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT="      509                 echo -n "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT="
510                 echo ",$FSTAB_OPTS," | sed \      510                 echo ",$FSTAB_OPTS," | sed \
511                  -e 's/.*,'"$OPT"'=//'  \         511                  -e 's/.*,'"$OPT"'=//'  \
512                  -e 's/,.*//'                     512                  -e 's/,.*//'
513         else                                      513         else
514                 # option not specified in fsta    514                 # option not specified in fstab: set it to 0
515                 echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT=0"        515                 echo "$PARSEDOPTS1,$OPT=0"
516         fi                                        516         fi
517   }                                               517   }
518                                                   518 
519   deduce_fstype () {                              519   deduce_fstype () {
520         MP="$1"                                   520         MP="$1"
521         # My root filesystem unfortunately has    521         # My root filesystem unfortunately has
522         # type "unknown" in /etc/mtab. If we e    522         # type "unknown" in /etc/mtab. If we encounter
523         # "unknown", we try to get the type fr    523         # "unknown", we try to get the type from fstab.
524         cat /etc/fstab |                          524         cat /etc/fstab |
525         grep -v '^#' |                            525         grep -v '^#' |
526         while read FSTAB_DEV FSTAB_MP FSTAB_FS    526         while read FSTAB_DEV FSTAB_MP FSTAB_FST FSTAB_OPTS FSTAB_DUMP FSTAB_DUMP ; do
527                 if [ "$FSTAB_MP" = "$MP" ]; th    527                 if [ "$FSTAB_MP" = "$MP" ]; then
528                         echo $FSTAB_FST           528                         echo $FSTAB_FST
529                         exit 0                    529                         exit 0
530                 fi                                530                 fi
531         done                                      531         done
532   }                                               532   }
533                                                   533 
534   if [ $DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME -eq 1 ] ; then         534   if [ $DO_REMOUNT_NOATIME -eq 1 ] ; then
535         NOATIME_OPT=",noatime"                    535         NOATIME_OPT=",noatime"
536   fi                                              536   fi
537                                                   537 
538   case "$1" in                                    538   case "$1" in
539         start)                                    539         start)
540                 AGE=$((100*$MAX_AGE))             540                 AGE=$((100*$MAX_AGE))
541                 XFS_AGE=$(($XFS_HZ*$MAX_AGE))     541                 XFS_AGE=$(($XFS_HZ*$MAX_AGE))
542                 echo -n "Starting laptop_mode"    542                 echo -n "Starting laptop_mode"
543                                                   543 
544                 if [ -d /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf ]    544                 if [ -d /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf ] ; then
545                         # (For 2.4 and early 2    545                         # (For 2.4 and early 2.6.)
546                         # This only needs to b    546                         # This only needs to be set, not reset -- it is only used when
547                         # laptop mode is enabl    547                         # laptop mode is enabled.
548                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/    548                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf/lm_flush_age
549                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/    549                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_sync_interval
550                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_    550                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_age_buffer ] ; then
551                         # (A couple of early 2    551                         # (A couple of early 2.6 laptop mode patches had these.)
552                         # The same goes for th    552                         # The same goes for these.
553                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/    553                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_age_buffer
554                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/    554                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_sync_interval
555                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age    555                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer ] ; then
556                         # (2.6.6)                 556                         # (2.6.6)
557                         # But not for these --    557                         # But not for these -- they are also used in normal
558                         # operation.              558                         # operation.
559                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/    559                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer
560                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/    560                         echo $XFS_AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/sync_interval
561                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age    561                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs ] ; then
562                         # (2.6.7 upwards)         562                         # (2.6.7 upwards)
563                         # And not for these ei    563                         # And not for these either. These are in centisecs,
564                         # not USER_HZ, so we h    564                         # not USER_HZ, so we have to use $AGE, not $XFS_AGE.
565                         echo $AGE > /proc/sys/    565                         echo $AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs
566                         echo $AGE > /proc/sys/    566                         echo $AGE > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centisecs
567                         echo 3000 > /proc/sys/    567                         echo 3000 > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfsbufd_centisecs
568                 fi                                568                 fi
569                                                   569 
570                 case "$KLEVEL" in                 570                 case "$KLEVEL" in
571                         "2.4")                    571                         "2.4")
572                                 echo 1            572                                 echo 1                                  > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
573                                 echo "30 500 0    573                                 echo "30 500 0 0 $AGE $AGE 60 20 0"     > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
574                                 ;;                574                                 ;;
575                         "2.6")                    575                         "2.6")
576                                 echo 5            576                                 echo 5                                  > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
577                                 echo "$AGE"       577                                 echo "$AGE"                             > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
578                                 echo "$AGE"       578                                 echo "$AGE"                             > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
579                                 echo "$DIRTY_R    579                                 echo "$DIRTY_RATIO"                     > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
580                                 echo "$DIRTY_B    580                                 echo "$DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO"          > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
581                                 ;;                581                                 ;;
582                 esac                              582                 esac
583                 if [ $DO_REMOUNTS -eq 1 ]; the    583                 if [ $DO_REMOUNTS -eq 1 ]; then
584                         cat /etc/mtab | while     584                         cat /etc/mtab | while read DEV MP FST OPTS DUMP PASS ; do
585                                 PARSEDOPTS="$(    585                                 PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_mount_opts "$OPTS")"
586                                 if [ "$FST" =     586                                 if [ "$FST" = 'unknown' ]; then
587                                         FST=$(    587                                         FST=$(deduce_fstype $MP)
588                                 fi                588                                 fi
589                                 case "$FST" in    589                                 case "$FST" in
590                                         "ext3"    590                                         "ext3"|"reiserfs")
591                                                   591                                                 PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_mount_opts commit "$OPTS")"
592                                                   592                                                 mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$PARSEDOPTS,commit=$MAX_AGE$NOATIME_OPT
593                                                   593                                                 ;;
594                                         "xfs")    594                                         "xfs")
595                                                   595                                                 mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$OPTS$NOATIME_OPT
596                                                   596                                                 ;;
597                                 esac              597                                 esac
598                                 if [ -b $DEV ]    598                                 if [ -b $DEV ] ; then
599                                         blockd    599                                         blockdev --setra $(($READAHEAD * 2)) $DEV
600                                 fi                600                                 fi
601                         done                      601                         done
602                 fi                                602                 fi
603                 if [ $DO_HD -eq 1 ] ; then        603                 if [ $DO_HD -eq 1 ] ; then
604                         for THISHD in $HD ; do    604                         for THISHD in $HD ; do
605                                 /sbin/hdparm -    605                                 /sbin/hdparm -S $BATT_HD $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1
606                                 /sbin/hdparm -    606                                 /sbin/hdparm -B 1 $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1
607                         done                      607                         done
608                 fi                                608                 fi
609                 if [ $DO_CPU -eq 1 -a -e /sys/    609                 if [ $DO_CPU -eq 1 -a -e /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq ]; then
610                         if [ $CPU_MAXFREQ = 's    610                         if [ $CPU_MAXFREQ = 'slowest' ]; then
611                                 CPU_MAXFREQ=`c    611                                 CPU_MAXFREQ=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq`
612                         fi                        612                         fi
613                         echo $CPU_MAXFREQ > /s    613                         echo $CPU_MAXFREQ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
614                 fi                                614                 fi
615                 echo "."                          615                 echo "."
616                 ;;                                616                 ;;
617         stop)                                     617         stop)
618                 U_AGE=$((100*$DEF_UPDATE))        618                 U_AGE=$((100*$DEF_UPDATE))
619                 B_AGE=$((100*$DEF_AGE))           619                 B_AGE=$((100*$DEF_AGE))
620                 echo -n "Stopping laptop_mode"    620                 echo -n "Stopping laptop_mode"
621                 echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_m    621                 echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
622                 if [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_b    622                 if [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer -a ! -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_age_buffer ] ; then
623                         # These need to be res    623                         # These need to be restored, if there are no lm_*.
624                         echo $(($XFS_HZ*$DEF_X    624                         echo $(($XFS_HZ*$DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER))           > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer
625                         echo $(($XFS_HZ*$DEF_X    625                         echo $(($XFS_HZ*$DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL))        > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/sync_interval
626                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age    626                 elif [ -f /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs ] ; then
627                         # These need to be res    627                         # These need to be restored as well.
628                         echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_A    628                         echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_AGE_BUFFER))       > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs
629                         echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_S    629                         echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_SYNC_INTERVAL))    > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centisecs
630                         echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_B    630                         echo $((100*$DEF_XFS_BUFD_INTERVAL))    > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfsbufd_centisecs
631                 fi                                631                 fi
632                 case "$KLEVEL" in                 632                 case "$KLEVEL" in
633                         "2.4")                    633                         "2.4")
634                                 echo "30 500 0    634                                 echo "30 500 0 0 $U_AGE $B_AGE 60 20 0" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
635                                 ;;                635                                 ;;
636                         "2.6")                    636                         "2.6")
637                                 echo "$U_AGE"     637                                 echo "$U_AGE"                           > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
638                                 echo "$B_AGE"     638                                 echo "$B_AGE"                           > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
639                                 echo "$DEF_DIR    639                                 echo "$DEF_DIRTY_RATIO"                 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
640                                 echo "$DEF_DIR    640                                 echo "$DEF_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO"      > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
641                                 ;;                641                                 ;;
642                 esac                              642                 esac
643                 if [ $DO_REMOUNTS -eq 1 ] ; th    643                 if [ $DO_REMOUNTS -eq 1 ] ; then
644                         cat /etc/mtab | while     644                         cat /etc/mtab | while read DEV MP FST OPTS DUMP PASS ; do
645                                 # Reset commit    645                                 # Reset commit and atime options to defaults.
646                                 if [ "$FST" =     646                                 if [ "$FST" = 'unknown' ]; then
647                                         FST=$(    647                                         FST=$(deduce_fstype $MP)
648                                 fi                648                                 fi
649                                 case "$FST" in    649                                 case "$FST" in
650                                         "ext3"    650                                         "ext3"|"reiserfs")
651                                                   651                                                 PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_mount_opts_wfstab $DEV commit $OPTS)"
652                                                   652                                                 PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_yesno_opts_wfstab $DEV atime atime $PARSEDOPTS)"
653                                                   653                                                 mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$PARSEDOPTS
654                                                   654                                                 ;;
655                                         "xfs")    655                                         "xfs")
656                                                   656                                                 PARSEDOPTS="$(parse_yesno_opts_wfstab $DEV atime atime $OPTS)"
657                                                   657                                                 mount $DEV -t $FST $MP -o remount,$PARSEDOPTS
658                                                   658                                                 ;;
659                                 esac              659                                 esac
660                                 if [ -b $DEV ]    660                                 if [ -b $DEV ] ; then
661                                         blockd    661                                         blockdev --setra 256 $DEV
662                                 fi                662                                 fi
663                         done                      663                         done
664                 fi                                664                 fi
665                 if [ $DO_HD -eq 1 ] ; then        665                 if [ $DO_HD -eq 1 ] ; then
666                         for THISHD in $HD ; do    666                         for THISHD in $HD ; do
667                                 /sbin/hdparm -    667                                 /sbin/hdparm -S $AC_HD $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1
668                                 /sbin/hdparm -    668                                 /sbin/hdparm -B 255 $THISHD > /dev/null 2>&1
669                         done                      669                         done
670                 fi                                670                 fi
671                 if [ $DO_CPU -eq 1 -a -e /sys/    671                 if [ $DO_CPU -eq 1 -a -e /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq ]; then
672                         echo `cat /sys/devices    672                         echo `cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq` > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
673                 fi                                673                 fi
674                 echo "."                          674                 echo "."
675                 ;;                                675                 ;;
676         *)                                        676         *)
677                 echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"     677                 echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" 2>&1
678                 exit 1                            678                 exit 1
679                 ;;                                679                 ;;
680                                                   680 
681   esac                                            681   esac
682                                                   682 
683   exit 0                                          683   exit 0
684                                                   684 
685                                                   685 
686 ACPI integration                                  686 ACPI integration
687 ----------------                                  687 ----------------
688                                                   688 
689 Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acp    689 Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will
690 kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm    690 kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. The part that
691 automatically disables laptop mode when the ba    691 automatically disables laptop mode when the battery is low was
692 written by Jan Topinski.                          692 written by Jan Topinski.
693                                                   693 
694 /etc/acpi/events/ac_adapter::                     694 /etc/acpi/events/ac_adapter::
695                                                   695 
696         event=ac_adapter                          696         event=ac_adapter
697         action=/etc/acpi/actions/ac.sh %e         697         action=/etc/acpi/actions/ac.sh %e
698                                                   698 
699 /etc/acpi/events/battery::                        699 /etc/acpi/events/battery::
700                                                   700 
701         event=battery.*                           701         event=battery.*
702         action=/etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh %e    702         action=/etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh %e
703                                                   703 
704 /etc/acpi/actions/ac.sh::                         704 /etc/acpi/actions/ac.sh::
705                                                   705 
706   #!/bin/bash                                     706   #!/bin/bash
707                                                   707 
708   # ac on/offline event handler                   708   # ac on/offline event handler
709                                                   709 
710   status=`awk '/^state: / { print $2 }' /proc/    710   status=`awk '/^state: / { print $2 }' /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/$2/state`
711                                                   711 
712   case $status in                                 712   case $status in
713           "on-line")                              713           "on-line")
714                   /sbin/laptop_mode stop          714                   /sbin/laptop_mode stop
715                   exit 0                          715                   exit 0
716           ;;                                      716           ;;
717           "off-line")                             717           "off-line")
718                   /sbin/laptop_mode start         718                   /sbin/laptop_mode start
719                   exit 0                          719                   exit 0
720           ;;                                      720           ;;
721   esac                                            721   esac
722                                                   722 
723                                                   723 
724 /etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh::                    724 /etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh::
725                                                   725 
726   #! /bin/bash                                    726   #! /bin/bash
727                                                   727 
728   # Automatically disable laptop mode when the    728   # Automatically disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.
729                                                   729 
730   BATT_INFO=/proc/acpi/battery/$2/state           730   BATT_INFO=/proc/acpi/battery/$2/state
731                                                   731 
732   if [[ -f /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ]]            732   if [[ -f /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode ]]
733   then                                            733   then
734      LM=`cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode`            734      LM=`cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode`
735      if [[ $LM -gt 0 ]]                           735      if [[ $LM -gt 0 ]]
736      then                                         736      then
737        if [[ -f $BATT_INFO ]]                     737        if [[ -f $BATT_INFO ]]
738        then                                       738        then
739           # Source the config file only now th    739           # Source the config file only now that we know we need
740           if [ -f /etc/default/laptop-mode ] ;    740           if [ -f /etc/default/laptop-mode ] ; then
741                   # Debian                        741                   # Debian
742                   . /etc/default/laptop-mode      742                   . /etc/default/laptop-mode
743           elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode    743           elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode ] ; then
744                   # Others                        744                   # Others
745                   . /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode    745                   . /etc/sysconfig/laptop-mode
746           fi                                      746           fi
747           MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=${MINIMUM_BA    747           MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=${MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES:-'10'}
748                                                   748 
749           ACTION="`cat $BATT_INFO | grep charg    749           ACTION="`cat $BATT_INFO | grep charging | cut -c 26-`"
750           if [[ ACTION -eq "discharging" ]]       750           if [[ ACTION -eq "discharging" ]]
751           then                                    751           then
752              PRESENT_RATE=`cat $BATT_INFO | gr    752              PRESENT_RATE=`cat $BATT_INFO | grep "present rate:" | sed  "s/.* \([0-9][0-9]* \).*/\1/" `
753              REMAINING=`cat $BATT_INFO | grep     753              REMAINING=`cat $BATT_INFO | grep "remaining capacity:" | sed  "s/.* \([0-9][0-9]* \).*/\1/" `
754           fi                                      754           fi
755           if (($REMAINING * 60 / $PRESENT_RATE    755           if (($REMAINING * 60 / $PRESENT_RATE < $MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES))
756           then                                    756           then
757              /sbin/laptop_mode stop               757              /sbin/laptop_mode stop
758           fi                                      758           fi
759        else                                       759        else
760          logger -p daemon.warning "You are usi    760          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."
761        fi                                         761        fi
762      fi                                           762      fi
763   fi                                              763   fi
764                                                   764 
765                                                   765 
766 Monitoring tool                                   766 Monitoring tool
767 ---------------                                   767 ---------------
768                                                   768 
769 Bartek Kania submitted this, it can be used to    769 Bartek Kania submitted this, it can be used to measure how much time your disk
770 spends spun up/down.  See tools/laptop/dslm/ds    770 spends spun up/down.  See tools/laptop/dslm/dslm.c
                                                      

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