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Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 11:31:41 schrieb luis jure: |
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> OK, now i have my system successfully installed and running on my new SSD. |
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> now i have to decide what to do with the rest of the disk (it's a 256MB |
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> samsung). |
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> the first big question is: what about swap? i found some web pages |
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> (perhaps old) stating that it's not wise to put swap on the SSD because of |
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> all the read/writes. but apparently from what i read on the recent |
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> thread on this list, that shouldn't be much of a concern now. |
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> i also read somewhere that if you have swap on the SSD and want to avoid |
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> unnecessary read/writes, you can reduce swappiness. i have 12GB RAM and i |
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> think normally i don't really need swap space on disk, so i thought that |
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> could be a good idea. |
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> so what i'm planning to do now is: |
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> - put swap on the SSD |
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don't make a swap partition, use a swapfile. |
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> - reduce swappiness |
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only swapon if you really need it. |
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> - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs |
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good, but also put /tmp on tmpfs. |
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And maybe /var on a harddisk. |
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