Re: reduce write access to hard disk
Hi, Jonathan.
On Oct 23 2005, Jonathan Schmitt wrote:
> Now, I've once used noflushd on a notebook, which somewhat does, what
> I want, however, with every read cycle also writes are performed.
As far as I know, noflushd or similar tools are deprecated and the 2.6
kernels should use "laptop mode" instead. To enable it, with a recent
2.6 kernel, just use:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
You may find other switches in that directory interesting to play with
and you may even like to install a debian package called
laptop-mode-tools and read the options that it offers and how it works.
Recommended reading, IMHO.
Hope this helps, Rogério Brito.
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