How often are writes to the "OS" portion of an installed Linux Distro really needed?

[Duane Attaway]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Oren Beck wrote:

> clearly. The idea I'm targeting is to get a distro in flash that does not
> abuse the flash media needlessly.

I'm no coder, but any distribution can do something like this:

echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

Or 6000 would make writes to flash happen only once each minute.

The Intel "powertop" utility makes these recommendations...

-=Duane
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