On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:33:25PM +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
Thanks for the warning: what are the symptoms of failure do you know?
Unfortunately SSDs typically suffer catastrophic failure, unlike
traditional spinning disks which hint at impending failure through ever
increasing SMART
Hello,
At 22:14 13/05/2013, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
Just to resurrect this thread and let you know what happened.
I tried rsyncing the contents of my system partition to a new
partition on the same disk and surprisingly that gave a significant
speed-up, around 10-20% at a guess. This is with
Thanks for the warning: what are the symptoms of failure do you know?
ATB, Peter
On 14 May 2013 16:57, Martin N marti...@bluebottle.com wrote:
Hello,
At 22:14 13/05/2013, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
Just to resurrect this thread and let you know what happened.
I tried rsyncing the
On 13 March 2013 21:57, Paul Stimpson p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk wrote:
Maybe a good cheap quiet boot device for an Openelec media player
though?
(assuming the media files are on a server somewhere else in the
house...)
An OpenElec machine will keep its database and all the downloaded
Well I've been looking at iotop when things are lagging and there
isn't really anything surprising going on. I do have a couple of
things causing a fairly constant low level of disk activity (around 1%
iowait) which are java (for Wuala cloud storage) and jbd2 (the ext4
filing system house keeping
Thank for all your comments. I've tried the CF card SSD and it's no
better. It gives an hdparm -t figure of about 20M compared with 50M
for my internal drive so predictably it takes longer to start up, but
I'd hoped that faster random access might give an overall improvement.
Sadly it's actually
On 13 March 2013 10:19, Peter Salisbury peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:
Thank for all your comments. I've tried the CF card SSD and it's no
better. It gives an hdparm -t figure of about 20M compared with 50M
for my internal drive so predictably it takes longer to start up, but
I'd
Hi,
Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe a good cheap quiet boot device for an Openelec media player
though?
(assuming the media files are on a server somewhere else in the
house...)
An OpenElec machine will keep its database and all the downloaded movie and
album art on the
It's very slow to do some things (e.g. shut down chrome or the Gimp)
and the xfce disk monitor shows the disk as 100% 'busy' but hardly
shifting any data.
It's worth checking that this isn't retried I/O; first listen to the disk
for any repetitive clicking. Modern disks are rather difficult
On 07/03/13 22:44, Peter Salisbury wrote:
PS I have a USB adapter on order from China for a 32Gig UDMA CF card I
have. Thought I might try it as an SSD!
I put a real SSD in my Revo. Well, I put an SSD in basically every
machine I own :)
It makes a tremendous difference.
Cheers,
--
Alan
Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
On 07/03/13 22:44, Peter Salisbury wrote:
PS I have a USB adapter on order from China for a 32Gig UDMA CF card
I
have. Thought I might try it as an SSD!
I wouldn't be surprised if this combination didn't perform especially well or
speak for the
Hi,
** DETAILS
I use an Acer Aspire Revo R3700 for my main PC (dual core 1.8Gig, 2Gig
memory, WD3200BEVT 320Gig SATA HDD)
I'm running xubuntu 12.10 at the moment.
It's very slow to do some things (e.g. shut down chrome or the Gimp)
and the xfce disk monitor shows the disk as 100% 'busy' but
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:44:58 +, peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net
said:
Anything I can try to speed things up or learn more about what's going
on?
Run iotop (you may need to install it first) to see which processes are
causing disk activity.
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