Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:10:29 +1000 From: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> To: Eric Blood <e.blood@citr.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive noise Message-ID: <373275C5.D2C17F01@TurnAround.com.au> References: <14130.27194.311593.355249@pearl.citr.com>
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Eric Blood wrote: > > I've just installed FreeBSD 3.1 on a laptop and it sounds like the > heads of the drive are getting parked a lot. I've tried tracking down > how to increase the update time, but for some reason, sysctl doesn't > think there's a kern.update. How do I go about setting it? > > Is there anything else I can do to delay writing to the drive? Tuning > a filesystem parameter, or some sort memory cache parameter? > You might want to look at softupdates (write caching) available in 3.0 and above (if I remember correctly). -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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