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 24CE01381F3 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8B50E0919; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f49.google.com (mail-ee0-f49.google.com [74.125.83.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C14B5E08BB for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f49.google.com with SMTP id b57so3349631eek.8 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=cTBuPVY/BCwc+UPH3n1qmmDo3AMLVL1C3AfO6xj6wDU=; b=fus30xBZXJM6T8xs+82wRWrGHQMSlAl+UQ9qDta9tQMlZ77qL47hlYLRcGH/lXLbdG qhzLiz5gN7YefeMFoZf0JbnejPDSQulgz4xBr4mfPHiP0Yq675bm56PQchbfCHrqF9Nq dr2NDWe1V0mucE6D2My8Bvx1CmMJRL1QuZx4we2JZuqc7QICllZWRwzB4ghp4jj8/2Mg oTo35odIhw/Ap8yEBuQ4IhMsmgAZ9TI+bV+RyJDJwo+sihV2N56bpl5abRbByohiPufK X2mfx0FFFjGV14Z7LJy9VRSbQuLczGwyWuPq1qDceiMBPICoLHhyCThZ+DhaX3IY6SDo /ghQ== X-Received: by 10.15.93.134 with SMTP id w6mr24573725eez.25.1374435572344; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p57A85CD2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [87.168.92.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a4sm45287529eez.0.2013.07.21.12.39.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:39:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: luis jure Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:39:29 +0200 Message-ID: <1631634.OetLsR6QRN@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.11 rc1 (Linux/3.4.53; KDE/4.10.95; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130721113141.6be7f5ad@acme7.acmenet> References: <20130721113141.6be7f5ad@acme7.acmenet> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 7d29dcce-65f6-442b-95ff-713acd2937f6 X-Archives-Hash: 2e92aa714e508b0bc1b5c6c1ac488b85 Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 11:31:41 schrieb luis jure: > OK, now i have my system successfully installed and running on my new SSD. > now i have to decide what to do with the rest of the disk (it's a 256MB > samsung). > > the first big question is: what about swap? i found some web pages > (perhaps old) stating that it's not wise to put swap on the SSD because of > all the read/writes. but apparently from what i read on the recent > thread on this list, that shouldn't be much of a concern now. > > i also read somewhere that if you have swap on the SSD and want to avoid > unnecessary read/writes, you can reduce swappiness. i have 12GB RAM and i > think normally i don't really need swap space on disk, so i thought that > could be a good idea. > > so what i'm planning to do now is: > > - put swap on the SSD don't make a swap partition, use a swapfile. > - reduce swappiness only swapon if you really need it. > - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs good, but also put /tmp on tmpfs. And maybe /var on a harddisk. > -- #163933