:On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 06:16:13PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: :> This is a spinoff of the Aleutia question, since Aleutia puts SSDs in :> computers. How does the periodic Hammer job handle SSDs? Does reblocking do :> anything different than on an HDD? If a computer has an SSD and an HDD, which :> should get the swap space? :> :> Pierre : :On my workstation I use an SSD for the root filesystem, swapcache and :/usr/pkg. : :The current configuration has snapshots set to 1d (10d retention time) :and reblocking is set to 7d (1m runtime). All other option (prune, :rebalance, dedup and recopy) are disabled. : :Currently it is running fine, but in my opinion running swapcache on a :workstation that just runs for a couple of hours is not always :necessary. I'm just running this setup to play with the swapcache and :the SSD, because I think it is a very nice feature. : :Regards, :Sven
You will definitely want to turn pruning on, it doesn't do all that much I/O and its needed to clean up the fine-grained snapshots. Rebalance, dedup, and recopy can be left turned off. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dil...@backplane.com>