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On Friday, 27 March 2020 10:08:12 GMT Michael wrote: |
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> man fstrim: |
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> [snip ...] |
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> "Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard, might |
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> negatively affect the lifetime of poor-quality SSD devices. For most |
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> desktop and server systems a sufficient trimming frequency is once a week. |
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> Note that not all devices support a queued trim, so each trim command |
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> incurs a performance penalty on whatever else might be trying to use the |
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> disk at the time." |
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OK, so I'll amend my crontab entry to '15 1 */2 * * /sbin/fstrim -a' or maybe |
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'*/3'. |
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I'm not keen on leaving it a whole week, as the machine runs continuously on |
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BOINC projects and I don't want to circumscribe it. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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