On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:52:53 +0200, Arno Rehn wrote: > On Thursday 29 July 2010 21:02:39 Roman Jarosz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when I have switched to KDE 4.5. I've notice that the system lags a lot, >> and after some debugging (and almost going back to 4.4) I found out that >> PowerManagemet is always changing the APM_level of my /dev/sda disk to >> 1, >> which mostly parks the disk heads cca. every 5 seconds during normal >> work. >> >> This is really bad because I have to wait 1-2s till the heads are >> unparked, >> but what's even worse that I can't find any option how to disable it. >> >> I would like to ask if I can disable it somewhere, or if I have to hack >> it >> in code? >> Also IMHO so aggressive power saving shouldn't be forced by default. > I found that pm-utils 1.4.0 triggers that exact behaviour (or maybe > there's a > communication error between PowerDevil and pm-utils/hal). But it > occasionally > also happened without a running KDE session. I reverted to pm-utils 1.3 > and > everything was fine again. I have pm-utils-1.4.1, so maybe it is some miscommunication between PowerDevil and pm-utils/hal, will try to check it tomorrow. It would be good If somebody could tell me where should I be looking (commenting out code). Thanks Roman >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<