How often are writes to the "OS" portion of an installed Linux Distro really needed?
Duane Attaway
dattaway at dattaway.net
Sun Feb 1 13:33:23 CST 2009
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Oren Beck wrote:
> clearly. The idea I'm targeting is to get a distro in flash that does not
> abuse the flash media needlessly.
I'm no coder, but any distribution can do something like this:
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
Or 6000 would make writes to flash happen only once each minute.
The Intel "powertop" utility makes these recommendations...
-=Duane
http://www.dattaway.net
More information about the Kclug
mailing list