Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Stokholm
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've one of these eeePC 900 installed by my own and a fried of my as well; he runs mySQL, Apache and a blogging engine on top of this without any kind of problems; I use mineone for writing stuff and reading with KDE's

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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

Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Lars Stokholm
Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always happens when the disk activity indicator is lit and it stops immediately when

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, August 28, 2008 a las 07:07:44PM +0200, Lars Stokholm escribió: Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always happens when the disk activity indicator is lit and it stops immediately when

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
any kind of problems; I use mineone for writing stuff and reading with KDE's konqueror, as well without any issues; the installation was done in both cases follwing this guide: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt just a comment - with 7.x it would be much better to make /tmp as tmpfs - it

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Yi Wang
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Lars Stokholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always