Laptop/Workstation, battery-runtime/throughput Goodness

[kernelOfTruth]

Hi there,

I collected together some settings for the VFS & harddrive-tweaking,

could you please test it & say if it improves battery runtime for you / improves throughput during data copying
(I've taken some of those from ubuntuforums, wikis, and several other places: kudos to all of your "tuners" out there

/proc/sys/vm/mapped <-- is the opposite of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness == mapped -> 100-swapped (ck-patchset / zen-sources specific)

# enhancing battery runtime (you may need to run sync manually for data safety's sake)

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#!/bin/bash
# Tweak virtual memory to conserve power when running on batteries.

echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/mapped
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
echo 95 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*; do
         /bin/echo "min_power" >  $i/link_power_management_policy
done

# optimizing vfs for desktop/server-performance:

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#!/bin/bash
# Tweak virtual memory for running on AC.

echo 66 > /proc/sys/vm/mapped
echo 3000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 3000  > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 10   > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
echo 95   > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 100000 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure

for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*; do
         /bin/echo "max_power" >  $i/link_power_management_policy
done

# general tweaking:

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for i in /sys/block/sd*; do
         /bin/echo "256" >  $i/queue/read_ahead_kb
done

for i in /sys/block/sd*; do
         /bin/echo "anticipatory" >  $i/queue/scheduler
done

## seems to be set dynamically, at least for me
#for i in /sys/block/sd*; do
#         /bin/echo "256" >  $i/queue/nr_requests
# done

best results are achieved with zen-sources and reiser4 + cryptcompress (lzo1) (

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 mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,compress=lzo1 /dev/foo 

)

Thanks in advance for your feedback

this post will be updated to reflect the changes in performance I experience.
I'll also add the addresses I stumble upon so that you can put together your ultimate tweaking / performance settings.

please share those with the community and post them here
Thanks in advance

References / Links:

throughput:
Extreme Linux Performance Monitoring and Tuning 1.0 Tuning ...
Reduced Power Usage (wiki.ubuntu.com)
Intel G33, Q35 and Q33 Chipsets
kernel tuning
lrz Munich (linux computing center Munich)
linux ata faq
searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com tip
raid optimization

responsiveness:
Tales from responsivenessland: why Linux feels slow, and how to fix that

[Dottout]

edit: sorry, I posted here by mistake, I was dealing with too many firefox tabs so, I moved my patch to the right 3d

[kernelOfTruth]

I'm no zen-sources maintainer, so please post it in the zen-sources thread, or better: file a bug on zen-sources' bugzilla

[kernelOfTruth]

update:

added the links which I used / googled up so far ...

[kernelOfTruth]

reverted & updated some really pessimistic settings, now it's good again

NOTE: these settings are meant for "normal" laptops and desktops (without raid controllers, for those you need to find the optimal settings yourself since I don't have / use any)

no one tried them out ?

how are they working out for you?

[micr0c0sm]

I would be more apt to mess around if you were idling some irc channel and/or could explain how to bench these.