Hello all of you. I just recently discovered laptop-mode and its uses (getting my laptop 100% quiet). I am running Gentoo btw, that might come in handy.

I am not enterly sure what laptop-mode does but sure enough my harddrive gets nicely suht down.

What i want to know is howto prevent the harddrive from spinning up again when using mozilla (probably it is accessing some buffers .. ).

I was not sure if to put this in the Software forum or here. Sorry for any inconvinience regarding the placement of this post.

Ceers!
Benne.

Mozilla probably reads/writes the cache and therefore accesses the HD. Unavoidable. Perhaps you could define a RAM-drive or an external USB-mem as the cache memory location.

/TLV

Where is the mozilla buffert/chache located? /tmp ?

The isb key idea was not a bad idea.

No idea, check the configuration for Mozilla.

/TLV

the mozilla cache is located in ~/.mozilla/default/********.***/Cache/
(******* is randomly-generated letters)

the solution would be to symlink that cache folder inside /tmp/ in a ramdisk.