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 5729F1381F3 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E960021C0D5; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82FE321C0C1 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id j5so4609887bkw.40 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:02:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.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=K/BzJA2RDsbVy5fT2au+4JJj50+4a7gc3wK7+s6md9E=; b=SGIbnoJ+Y6vtqUCJOJebs/bRaCTjUvailgN8hvd66uBUrC+d4miy3xT4j7Q0goHkQ5 iwpGxE0usfOvfaErsQ3iDh5bWvj6iDFP31cZAF3XYsJpHBtIihTvrzSRXoCNN14ZzU6P ng1kWO0tLX0oc8DKqLoBfPxeDDMJLgf36MNm9YSVUSLiqSeiZIWL1YXMhE8i8ppPA0Az VFA6S0PiOSEDd/jx6gxe8tb5izmrfEG6ePulh6/d9VaXP0uaV03z+wj7a/3cpue0Jn7z gHw/2CQTAkSZEQbIAfq/LQ+gxSG0GemQEMt9sbm5hb8v7E/VcM0PJ97IeM//CsSE/w1C qyDw== Received: by 10.204.149.11 with SMTP id r11mr3120931bkv.93.1353924139073; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC61453.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.20.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y11sm7405918bkw.8.2012.11.26.02.02.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:02:18 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: William Kenworthy Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:01:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1893094.kyWjK3eZCV@energy> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.2 (Linux/3.4.14; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1353889424.14417.1.camel@moriah> References: <1353883588.13218.5.camel@moriah> <3158938.dnhSv8A60p@energy> <1353889424.14417.1.camel@moriah> 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: d7d7a4f2-660b-424b-b376-2af608588cb4 X-Archives-Hash: 65f993dec9f4286225067d3b06838847 Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 08:23:44 schrieb William Kenworthy: > 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 ... > so the 4gb are sitting on the mobo itself? Or are we talking about some system from the bronze ages which does not accept sticks bigger than 512mb - and you put 8 into it? either way, new board+8gb will make you happier than a destroyed ssd. -- #163933