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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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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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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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:wq |
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