File laptop-mode-1.49-new-dirty-ratio-defaults.diff of Package laptop-mode-tools
Newer Kernels have more reasonable defaults for dirty_ratio, use the kernels
defaults by default also for laptop-mode.
Index: b/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf
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--- a/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf
+++ b/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf
@@ -293,11 +293,11 @@ CONTROL_MOUNT_OPTIONS=1
#
# Dirty synchronous ratio. At this percentage of dirty pages the process
# which calls write() does its own writeback.
#
LM_DIRTY_RATIO=60
-NOLM_DIRTY_RATIO=40
+NOLM_DIRTY_RATIO=20
#
# Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been
# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount
Index: b/usr/sbin/laptop_mode
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--- a/usr/sbin/laptop_mode
+++ b/usr/sbin/laptop_mode
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
LM_DIRTY_RATIO=60
LM_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=1
NOLM_DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=10
-NOLM_DIRTY_RATIO=40
+NOLM_DIRTY_RATIO=20
LM_SECONDS_BEFORE_SYNC=2
BATT_CPU_MAXFREQ=medium
BATT_CPU_MINFREQ=slowest