Am 29.07.2011 20:18, schrieb Michael Mol: > Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and > you guys are probably the right ones to ask. > > I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about > uses for them beyond using them for / or /home. > > 1) What about sitting swap (partition, file, whatever) on the SSD? > Presumably, in scenarios where expanding the RAM in a system is > prohibitively expensive, an SSD could reduce the impact of swap > thrash. >
Sure why not. However, if you plan to swap constantly, I'd recommend doing a prediction of the life-time. For normal usage, the number of possible write cycles should be sufficient. > > 2) While my system rarely goes above using 2-2.5GB of RAM, I enjoy > having 6-8GB of RAM, just for the file cache. Of course, I lose that > when I reboot; the cache needs to be repopulated. Has there been any > work in the kernel for doing things like Vista/Win7's ReadyBoost? > ReadyBoost has a ridiculous limit to only using 4GB of a flash drive, > but I'd think that an 80GB SSD would be a massive performance > improvement. > You should try sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources for suspend-to-disk. It preserves the cache as well. > Obviously, for something like Gentoo, putting an SSD-based filesystem > under /var/tmp makes a lot of sense, but what other uses have been > tried? How'd they work out? > Ruggedized PC sitting on top of the rotor head of a helicopter, making videos of the blade movement. Works well, but the SATA connectors tend to fall off. ;-) Regards, Florian Philipp
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