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 D53F91381F3 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20D2BE0898; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from internet.com.uy (correo.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C48EDE084A for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:31:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme7.acmenet (r186-55-134-6.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy [186.55.134.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by correo.tecnet.com.uy (8.14.4/8.14.4/host-001) with ESMTP id r6LEVdYs011425 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:31:45 -0300 X-TN_STAT: 25 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:31:41 -0300 From: luis jure To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap Message-ID: <20130721113141.6be7f5ad@acme7.acmenet> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (correo.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.43]); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:31:45 -0300 (UYT) X-Archives-Salt: 96f81795-487b-415b-b115-0c0dade470da X-Archives-Hash: a1fc8c53021075fda757458677d77add 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 - reduce swappiness - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs so, do you guys think that's a good setup?