Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 11:31:41 schrieb luis jure: > 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
don't make a swap partition, use a swapfile. > - reduce swappiness only swapon if you really need it. > - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs good, but also put /tmp on tmpfs. And maybe /var on a harddisk. > -- #163933
