On Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:37:48 AEDT Piers via luv-main wrote: > On 9/3/24 13:19, Russell Coker wrote: > > If that's the case you averaged 2.16*1000000000/4/365/3600=410MB/s 24*7 > > over the lifetime! How did you do that? > > I would like to say I'm a workaholic but we both know the truth on that one!
;) > > Do you just have the system paging non-stop all the time? > > I did see a post with similar specs - perhaps it was the paging file. I > made it 4GB yesterday and only had one maybe 2 crashes today. Changing the size of the swap file won't change the amount that it's used. If you use zram or zswap you can decrease the amount of data written. If zram/ zswap allows you to halve the writes then a good Samsung SSD could be expected to last you 8 years which is long enough for DDR6 based Thinkpad Fold type devices to become affordable. > I picked up a replacement and will but Mint on it as I'm testing it on > another laptop and I like it. Changing to Mint won't make any real difference to the swap. The applications are about the same size on all systems. You probably need to develop habits of shutting down applications when you don't really need them. Having LibreOffice and GIMP running in the background all the time on a laptop isn't going to work well. There are ways of getting the system to be more usable with the current load (such as zram/zswap) but that won't make performance great. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
