Ubuntu for laptops

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote:

> If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of 
> discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the 
> disk from being able to go to sleep.  The bottom line is optimizing for 
> performance is more or less inversely proportional to optimizing for low 
> energy consumption.  So yes, it would be useful to have a 
> laptop-optimized version.

As far as filesystems go, pretty much everything that improves battery 
life does so by reducing the number of accesses - which also improves 
performance. I don't think that's the tradeoff you're thinking about.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org