On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/11/4 Roger Schreiter <ro...@planinternet.de>: >> it is like for any OS on SSD HD. Make sure, you are using >> no swap partition! > > This is ridiculous advice. > >> And if you are using an application, which is writing >> a lot of things into files, put the respective dirs into >> ramdisks! > > Combined with this is even dumber. > > If you can't swap, you're already in trouble if you run into memory > pressure. So then you go and put the filesystem in RAM to make sure > there's lots of extra memory pressure? > >
I'm with Ted on this one. At the very least, stick a USB drive in and use that for swap. If things are going to write to SSDs a lot, get two (if budget allows) and stripe/RAID-5 them - this actually does wonders for increasing the lifespan of SSDs. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict - Oh, why does everything I whip leave me?
