Mattias Sandstrom wrote:
> Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> 
>> with options enabled that minimize disk writes.
> 
> very interesting. i use softdep and nodevtime and i guess i could/should 
> use noatime as well, and i've removed the at entry from cron. any other 
> suggestions? my microdrive spins up and down too much in my opinion. i 
> see that the "official" apm document uses async instead of softdeps for 
> its battery script. would that be better? and does atactl setidle have 
> any effect on microdrives? they don't complain but seem to be spinning 
> down rather quickly no matter what you tell them.

The options I use are softdep, noatime, and nodevmtime for the 1 GB CF 
card I boot my Jornada 728 (NetBSD/hpcarm) from. I have not played with 
atactl at all so I am not sure how much that helps. I also have the 
following in /etc/rc.conf:

no_swap=YES
clear_tmp=YES
savecore=NO
accounting=NO
inetd=NO

The atrun command is commented out in root's crontab. In addition, I 
have the following options set in /etc/daily.conf:

find_core=NO
expire_news=NO
purge_accounting=NO
run_msgs=NO
run_calendar=NO
check_uucp=NO
check_disks=NO
check_mailq=YES
check_network=YES
run_fsck=NO
run_rdist=NO
run_security=NO
run_skeyaudit=NO

Those are all the options that I typically set in order to minimize the 
disk writing as much as possible. Some of the checks from 
/etc/daily.conf are just superfluous for a client machine anyway. I may 
have set some more options in other files but those are the ones I came 
up with right now. Anyone else have suggestions?

Bryan