From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0D81381F3 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B123521C088; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out4.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out4.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A220DE0603 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:23:54 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAFAEy1slDLOzJV/2dsb2JhbABDhii2LoNSFnOCHgEBBSNmCw0LAgImAgJXiCWrV5FngSKLFYEaghSBEwOIXJMQIoo3gnw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.83,316,1352044800"; d="scan'208";a="61075817" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.50.85]) by icp-osb-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 26 Nov 2012 08:23:52 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA78327DF69 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:23:52 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id A4zPY34N42p6 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:23:44 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E08827DFA8 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:23:44 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <1353889424.14417.1.camel@moriah> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd? From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:23:44 +0800 In-Reply-To: <3158938.dnhSv8A60p@energy> References: <1353883588.13218.5.camel@moriah> <3158938.dnhSv8A60p@energy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3844b3e9-e43b-4bbb-93d9-d1fb50c695c8 X-Archives-Hash: 0ec32e44f01ea19c124ef7f48a4a1993 On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - > > any other effects? > > > > I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap > > heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am thinking a small > > ssd might help here. > > you know what helps even more? replacing those 4g with 8g. > I would if I could - physical max is 4G ... BillK