readhead

### cat /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/readahead
#!/bin/sh

[ -x /sbin/blockdev ] || exit $NA

# more readahead = (hopefully) less hard drive activity.
# less readahead = less trashing the page cache.

DRIVE_READAHEAD_AC=${DRIVE_READAHEAD_AC:-12288}
DRIVE_READAHEAD_AC=${DRIVE_READAHEAD_AC:-12288}

help() {
    cat <<EOF
--------
$0: Control drive readahead.

This hook tries to trade off the number of times we spin up a drive
to read for potentially wasted cache.

Drive readahead parameters:
DRIVE_READAHEAD_AC = Number of KB to speculatively read on AC.
Defaults to 256 KB.

DRIVE_READAHEAD_BAT = Number of KB to speculatively read on battery.
Defaults to 3072 KB.

EOF
}

readahead() {
    # the intent here is to iterate through all filesystems
    # mounted on a local block device. It Works For The Maintainer(tm).
    # More sophistication in figuring out what exactly is a local block device
    # would be welcome.
    for dev in $(awk '/^\/dev\// {print $1}'</etc/mtab); do
    printf "Setting readahead for %s to %d..." "$dev" "$1"
    /sbin/blockdev --setfra $1 "$dev" && echo Done. || echo Failed.
    done
}

case $1 in
    true) readahead "$DRIVE_READAHEAD_BAT" ;;
    false) readahead "$DRIVE_READAHEAD_AC" ;;
    help) help;;
    *) exit $NA ;;
esac

exit 0