Joshua Nichols <[email protected]> writes: > The reason I asked was not because I didn't know this, but because an > article said "under normal use, SSDs will last longer than the computer > themselves." I don't know if constantly saving, writing, and compiling > lilypond files with temporary files saved in Frescobaldi would be > considered "beyond normal use." I appreciate your explanation of this. > > I'm not trying to baby my computer; I'm only trying to be considerate of > any limitations there might be for an SSD currently.
Does Frescobaldi have an autocompile feature where it basically saves and compiles at every keystroke in order to keep a preview up-to-date? If so, I'd just switch that off (it's probably also awful for battery life). Similarly, try getting a large enough amount of RAM and set /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 0. Personally, I also avoid hibernation since that's a few GB at one stroke. It may be sort of superstitious, but the usage data of my SSD indeed slowly suggests looking for replacements. I wouldn't worry about normal Frescobaldi usage when compilation is manually triggered by the user, at least not with current SSDs. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
