eeePC 900 with SSD && reducing writes

[Rodrigo OSORIO (ros)]

On 24/06/08 15:11 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD 7.0R on that eeePC 900 and because of the
> limited life time of the SSD (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling )
> I disabled some logging stuff which I don't need on that tiny laptop,
> for example:
> 
> syslogd_enable="NO"
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> cron_enable="NO"
> newsyslog_enable="NO"
> 
> as well I have:
> 
> - not created any swap partition (the box runs fine with 1 GByte RAM)
> - mount the file systems with 'noatime'
> - put /tmp into memory file system with 128 MByte
> 
> any other ideas how to reduces unnecessary often-writes?
> 
> I'd also like to get rid of 'lastlog' and 'wtmp' but even if the man
> page claims that they will not be created if they don't exist, they
> come up again and again;
> 
> another candidate of not needed log is
> /var/log/Xorg.n.log ...
> 
> thx
> 
> 	matthias
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Hi,

Yes, you also can disable the file access time with the 'noatime' option in the fstab. See man mount(8).

Regards

Rodrigo OSORIO