From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 08:22:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79CF1065675 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51328FC0A for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7T8Mj7J001684; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:22:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m7T8Mjpo001681; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:22:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:22:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Lars Stokholm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080829102114.T1548@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080828185521.GA2142@rebelion.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:22:52 -0000 >> don't know if this will help you; > > I never had swap, but now I've set noatime on mounts and Fx cache to > 0MB. maybe after 5 years from now (at least) they finally "invent" direct controlling of flash and flash-optimized filesystem. flash drives should be MUCH faster that hard drives, but they had to emulate hard drives...