Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

[Alan McKinnon]

On 21/07/2013 16:34, Jarry wrote:
> On 21-Jul-13 16:31, luis jure wrote:
>>
>> so what i'm planning to do now is:
>>
>> - put swap on the SSD
>> - reduce swappiness
>> - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs
>>
>> so, do you guys think that's a good setup?
>
> Sounds good to me. But with 12GB RAM the question is:
> Do you need swap at all?
>
> Jarry


yes, he does, but not for the reason most people think

tmpfs is backed by swap :-)



Swap was originally introduced waaaaaaaaay back in the 60s as a
workaround for computers that had far less RAM than the workload
strictly needed. This has not fundamentally changed in any significant
way 40 years later so like you, I always favour having enough RAM.

And RAM is MUCH cheaper than SSDs and requires no fiddling and tweaking
to be able to use it.

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Alan McKinnon
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