On 21/07/13 15:31, luis jure wrote:
OK, now i have my system successfully installed and running on my new SSD.
now i have to decide what to do with the rest of the disk (it's a 256MB
samsung).
the first big question is: what about swap? i found some web pages
(perhaps old) stating that it's not wise to put swap on the SSD because of
all the read/writes. but apparently from what i read on the recent
thread on this list, that shouldn't be much of a concern now.
i also read somewhere that if you have swap on the SSD and want to avoid
unnecessary read/writes, you can reduce swappiness. i have 12GB RAM and i
think normally i don't really need swap space on disk, so i thought that
could be a good idea.
so what i'm planning to do now is:
- put swap on the SSD
- reduce swappiness
- put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs
so, do you guys think that's a good setup?
TBH, unless you are really stressing your RAM usage (Lots of VMs or Java
applications, stuff like that) I'd go without swap. I've been running
swapless on 8GB of RAM for a number of years now with no issues.
As for /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs, this is fine 95% of the time, however
even with ~2GB I allocate some packages (Chromium, LibreOffice, ect)
will fail to compile due to lack of space. In these cases I just
un-mount /var/tmp/portage, do the compile on the disk, and then re-mount
it.
