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2010 Apr 15
2
Power consumption monitoring
...rt is quite limited in this kernel (e.g. PowerTop not providing useful information). Before I start tuning I would like to be able to measure whether my changes are having any impact at all. Thanks in advance, Mathieu [1] http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/cpu.php [2] http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/powersaving.html
2010 Nov 29
1
Minimising disk I/O
I'd like to get disk I/O down to a minimum for my new Centos 5.5 installation. The machine will not be used as a web server anymore, as that's now hosted on a cloud platform. So there are no HTTP requests coming down the line. If I move the SWAP partition and /var/log/ to a small spare drive, and install Centos on the new larger drive, is there anything else that would cause disk