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 41A391381F3 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D8D7E0955; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96575E094C for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:25:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F26420BBD for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:25:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:25:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=T4imzqMbX5/ScpspN/5adV3j tx8=; b=NvJljDS0qhnj+sfcnP3bA+tUbSFvrxFqOG3zwE7CLzOLORl/XGbyXrho hhqNA9vJV3fn0WR+HNs/4gg3HwTb7cWCZInlZoJIjlRDDryF+ZMM/g4fpN3dhjOU vPH0vzemNcKUZRhnYgMwhw7IeWsyVf0DHOQv6yaqKIblokpISqw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=T4im zqMbX5/ScpspN/5adV3jtx8=; b=HVTmHc+q95FBwzqWcYI8sHxspz+H8zIQsJGi BT9ojUolDFhMGWPmqZ8sIPFHhMc4kMAQbYzet2xs3NpKgiHGYmolKUouw4gXBzXS P3HKAiWuo6TN4oi7QBEp2Cfq7/bBExeVaj6/lCjRHJH+nrZ+wIB1MZxYnFtkfkKl rZw968U= X-Sasl-enc: p1AyS0GVoGlNXk0YJALh4n+ftPwD/JaOSDyL6tJEDcGD 1374431152 Received: from [10.230.204.1] (unknown [46.115.67.204]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7AAB5C00E7F for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:25:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <51EC2738.80609@binarywings.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:23:52 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130629 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap References: <20130721113141.6be7f5ad@acme7.acmenet> <51EBF343.4060905@p8952.info> <20130721123901.19d2d3c4@acme7.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <20130721123901.19d2d3c4@acme7.acmenet> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2FLRVMFLFGLBABXCQWQPC" X-Archives-Salt: 07db0812-5245-4cea-aa71-b9a892f30bc5 X-Archives-Hash: 77c6ca9fade747d3187f7aedb7725b71 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2FLRVMFLFGLBABXCQWQPC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 21.07.2013 17:39, schrieb luis jure: > on 2013-07-21 at 15:42 Peter Wilmott wrote: >=20 >> TBH, unless you are really stressing your RAM usage (Lots of VMs or Ja= va=20 >> applications, stuff like that) I'd go without swap. >=20 > it's true that most of the time 12BG is more than enough for me and i > don't use swap space on disk. i wouldn't go for a swapless system, thou= gh, > specially since i'm going to put things on tmpfs. >=20 > a few GB (i'm thinking about 8) of swap space on disk won't hurt, and i= 'd > feel safer. that's the idea of reducing swappiness to 1 or 0, anyway. >=20 Also think about using zswap or frontswap. Both work well despite still being in staging in current kernels. Zswap will be stabilized in kernel 3.11, I think. Regards, Florian Philipp ------enig2FLRVMFLFGLBABXCQWQPC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHsJz0ACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8FHwCfWEbi7VPGmIv9zEXd7EYwPNK4 +rMAn0Cvc2yWoSTqopDH64maxa1F0gU+ =qf/Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2FLRVMFLFGLBABXCQWQPC--