From: Amankwah <amankwah7@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:40:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140619084008.GA97639@NAS> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMgqO2x7B6qKhFs6a=s=5saaY4KLtMJEh-3Q=TBoePRMQWRhzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:36:59AM +0800, microcai wrote:
> rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree,
> that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror.
>
>
> I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor
> of 26. I think the only reason is that I put portage tree on this SSD
> to speed it up.
>
> what is the suggest way to reduce Write Amplification of a portage sync ?
>
Maybe the only solution is that move the portage tree to HDD??
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-19 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-19 2:36 [gentoo-user] [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD? microcai
2014-06-19 8:40 ` Amankwah [this message]
2014-06-19 11:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-19 11:56 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-19 12:16 ` Kerin Millar
2014-06-19 22:03 ` Full Analyst
2014-06-20 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2014-06-21 4:54 ` microcai
2014-06-21 14:27 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-06-21 14:54 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-21 19:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2014-06-21 19:24 ` Kai Krakow
2014-06-22 1:40 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-22 11:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2014-06-22 13:44 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-24 18:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2014-06-24 20:01 ` Rich Freeman
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