[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

[Xavier]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael Towers <larch42 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Given the difficulty of finding the optimal solution to this problem,
> I think I agree with the earlier suggestion to just monitor the
> situation and report to the user if there is a problem - and provide a
> useful account of how to handle it. I imagine it would not be too
> difficult to write cron scripts to monitor the count. Perhaps one
> could measure load cycles over the last hour, the last day and the
> last month, for example. There could be some sort of notification if
> some threshold or other was overstepped. At this point it is of course
> less straightforward - what sort of notification should that be? A
> 'normal' desktop notification would perhaps work for most users?
>
> Normally I wouldn't suggest something like this here for fear of
> getting my knuckles rapped - at present I really don't have time to do
> it myself - but maybe someone is just itching to get going on a little
> project like this.
>

That does not sound like a bad idea. And it could benefit to all
distro, not only arch.