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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.


  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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