On Sat, 30 May 2009 07:08:55 -0700 Grant wrote: > >> 2. added elevator=noop as a boot parameter > > > > I remember that I've given this second advice. Since then I've read in > > the German computer journal c't [1] that CFQ has a detection for SSDs > > since 2.6.28 and now is the best choice for these devices. > > OK, do I need a boot parameter if I've set CFQ as the default IO > scheduler in the kernel config? No, that's what default switch is there for. > > Yup, the entry should read: > > tmp /tmp tmpfs default 0 0 I'd also suggest to explicitly specify max size of tmpfs mount, since system locking because of wrong cp command is probably the last thing you want. Argument is "size=" (see man 8 mount). > Do you think mounting /tmp in RAM is worthwhile? Mike doesn't seem to > think too highly of it. I guess accelerated fsync and reduced disk wear should be a nice plus for SSD device, provided the path in question is constanly used for writing which really might be the case with files, created in /tmp by various mktemp implementations (like python's) which I haven't really thought about, so I think I might be wrong about the issue here, sorry. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net