From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:55:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCH4M-CtFnu_+t+RKQ0o9ONfiWbzooZ=p=d3Qb72ekoJww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120905133146.2ad0ffa1@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
>> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work
>> directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference
>> in compile times is just not there.
>
> Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway.
Would it still be useful to use tmpfs if you wanted to keep drive
writes down on an SSD? I imagine even tho its cached it would get
written to disk after a timer expires, so while it doesn't affect
performance it does reduce the drive life.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 7:20 [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions Philip Webb
2012-09-04 7:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-04 20:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-09-04 20:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-04 21:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-04 21:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 0:42 ` Philip Webb
2012-09-05 8:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 9:02 ` Philip Webb
2012-09-05 9:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 11:07 ` Dale
2012-09-05 11:25 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 12:02 ` Dale
2012-09-05 12:58 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 18:02 ` Dale
2012-09-05 19:01 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-05 20:46 ` Dale
2012-09-05 21:22 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-05 22:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-09-05 12:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 12:52 ` Dale
2012-09-05 15:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 15:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-05 17:54 ` Dale
2012-09-05 23:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 9:13 ` Dale
2012-09-06 6:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 9:15 ` Dale
2012-09-06 9:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 10:03 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 10:56 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:41 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 11:03 ` Dale
2012-09-06 11:37 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 12:21 ` Dale
2012-09-06 13:27 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 14:27 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:11 ` Dale
2012-09-06 10:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 10:44 ` Dale
2012-09-06 11:11 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 11:31 ` Dale
2012-09-06 12:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 12:44 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 12:48 ` Dale
2012-09-06 13:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 14:07 ` Dale
2012-09-06 14:26 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-06 16:27 ` Dale
2012-09-07 7:56 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-07 9:15 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-07 12:25 ` Dale
2012-09-07 19:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 14:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 16:32 ` Dale
2012-09-06 20:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 14:51 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 16:49 ` Dale
2012-09-06 13:46 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-06 14:20 ` Dale
2012-09-06 14:33 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-06 16:39 ` Dale
2012-09-06 16:00 ` Paul Hartman
2012-09-06 16:44 ` Dale
2012-09-06 20:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 21:09 ` Dale
2012-09-06 22:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-06 23:08 ` Dale
2012-09-07 7:47 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-07 12:35 ` Dale
2012-09-10 10:32 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-09-10 11:13 ` Dale
2012-09-10 12:37 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-10 13:52 ` Dale
2012-09-10 14:02 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-10 14:22 ` Dale
2012-09-05 12:55 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2012-09-05 15:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2012-09-05 9:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-09-05 16:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-09-05 17:02 ` Neil Bothwick
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