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Am 29.07.2011 20:18, schrieb Michael Mol: |
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> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and |
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> you guys are probably the right ones to ask. |
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> I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about |
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> uses for them beyond using them for / or /home. |
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> 1) What about sitting swap (partition, file, whatever) on the SSD? |
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> Presumably, in scenarios where expanding the RAM in a system is |
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> prohibitively expensive, an SSD could reduce the impact of swap |
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> thrash. |
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Sure why not. However, if you plan to swap constantly, I'd recommend |
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doing a prediction of the life-time. For normal usage, the number of |
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possible write cycles should be sufficient. |
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> 2) While my system rarely goes above using 2-2.5GB of RAM, I enjoy |
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> having 6-8GB of RAM, just for the file cache. Of course, I lose that |
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> when I reboot; the cache needs to be repopulated. Has there been any |
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> work in the kernel for doing things like Vista/Win7's ReadyBoost? |
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> ReadyBoost has a ridiculous limit to only using 4GB of a flash drive, |
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> but I'd think that an 80GB SSD would be a massive performance |
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> improvement. |
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You should try sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources for suspend-to-disk. It |
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preserves the cache as well. |
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> Obviously, for something like Gentoo, putting an SSD-based filesystem |
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> under /var/tmp makes a lot of sense, but what other uses have been |
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> tried? How'd they work out? |
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Ruggedized PC sitting on top of the rotor head of a helicopter, making |
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videos of the blade movement. Works well, but the SATA connectors tend |
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to fall off. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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