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 D1E641381F3 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D831B21C07F; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3B4521C06A for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19680 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2012 00:05:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2012 00:05:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 28429 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Nov 2012 23:51:22 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:51:22 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd? Message-ID: <20121125235122.GA4951@crowfix.com> References: <1353883588.13218.5.camel@moriah> <3158938.dnhSv8A60p@energy> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3158938.dnhSv8A60p@energy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: d9e37de8-0ef0-45be-8cc7-e0419e7e94fb X-Archives-Hash: 5872982251db398bd12986c3ae192851 On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:02:23AM +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. Not when it's maxed at 4g. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o