On Friday, 27 March 2020 10:08:12 GMT Michael wrote: > man fstrim: > [snip ...] > > "Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard, might > negatively affect the lifetime of poor-quality SSD devices. For most > desktop and server systems a sufficient trimming frequency is once a week. > Note that not all devices support a queued trim, so each trim command > incurs a performance penalty on whatever else might be trying to use the > disk at the time."
OK, so I'll amend my crontab entry to '15 1 */2 * * /sbin/fstrim -a' or maybe '*/3'. I'm not keen on leaving it a whole week, as the machine runs continuously on BOINC projects and I don't want to circumscribe it. -- Regards, Peter.
