From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 13: 2:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7133837B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sysfail.com (24-56-213-122.mdmmi.voyager.net [24.56.213.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF05843F13 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aSe@SysFail.com) Received: from bob ([127.0.0.1]) by sysfail.com ([24.56.213.122]) with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v6.5.1.R) for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:03:33 -0500 Reply-To: From: "aSe" To: "Dan Nelson" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: RE: port of noflushd Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:03:30 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <20030111032245.GB39434@dan.emsphone.com> Importance: Normal X-MDRemoteIP: 127.0.0.1 X-Return-Path: aSe@SysFail.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >In the last episode (Jan 10), aSe said: >> I'm building up a box outta spare parts i had laying around. I'm >> really looking for a FreeBSD port of noflushd ( >> http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ ) or something that'll do the same. > >Why would anyone _not_ want disk writes to be written to disk? Use a >ramdisk if you don't want to touch the drive. I'm trying to think of a >use for this program. The noise of the constally spinning HD does bother me. I sleep rather = close to my computers. With that application/program, the HD would be = spun down when not needed/inuse. If i had enough ram to run everything = off a ramdrive i would attempt it. Right now I only have 3x64mb laying = around. Gordon Keesler [aSe@SysFail.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message