HOWTO: Decrease disk activity

[Skip Da Shu]

Skip,

Thanks. I was able to follow the steps in the first post up to the chmod part. I find that I don't have the laptop-tools file. Is that a problem?

(This _is_ a laptop, so it would seem that the file should be there...)

Thanks again.

While I can't explain why you don't have it... my desktop has it... but it's just a little 6 line script and he's disabling it anyway so not having it shouldn't be a problem.

[ProDigit]

This is what I needed running the latest version of Xubuntu 9 from a USB stick!

Any guide will be appreciated!

I'm generally using an EXT2 partition with noatime enabled, and tried doing the kernel command mentioned above.
I think this is a vital mod for computers running from a USB stick.

Another guide would be awesome if it's written to start Xubuntu from 2 USB sticks or 2x SD cards in a raid config (if that ever will be possible) to improve IOPS (by using a different card/USB stick for reads and another one for writes to the other device).

[Rebelli0us]

Thank you, but that solution is much too technical for average users. I started reading this thread, really... even engineers get bored with too many command lines.

My hard disks run hotter in Ubuntu compared to Windows -- 34 C in XP, 41 C in Ubuntu. I don't know if it's the driver or excessive disk activity. my disks are WDC WD3200BEKT . Thanks, I'd be happy to help in any way I can.

[nutznboltz]

Read this

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/T...lashmemorylife

The RAMRUN and RAMLOCK parts are not needed for Ubuntu but the idea of using tmpfs in various places makes good sense.

After I added the journal_async_commit mount option my SLC SSD netbook stopped reporting SMART warnings that the drive was being improperly used.

[c00kiemonster]

Does anyone have a good idea of an ext4 (10.04.1) equivalent of this?

[zika]

The RAMRUN and RAMLOCK parts are not needed for Ubuntu.

Would You elaborate on this...

[GoCool]

Does anyone have a good idea of an ext4 (10.04.1) equivalent of this?

Yup...even i wanna know, is there an ext4 equivalent of this. Even I am using 10.04 netbook version.