Re: System on SSD

2011-05-31 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, just some notes about the current state migrating to an SSD for the system. I installed the SSD, created a GPT partition on it that contains the following layout. a: 1 GB UFS b: 40 GB swap d: 8 GB HAMMER e: 10 GB unused Currently only swap is used by swapcache. That indeed speed

Re: System on SSD

2011-05-11 Thread Sven Gaerner
mainly to use HAMMER to get a simple and easy backup solution using the mirror-stream command. So the next step is to get an idea of swapcache. But I thought 50 GB for swapcache on a workstation is wasted spaces on the SSD. That's why I wanted to put the system on the SSD too, to see

System on SSD

2011-05-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I just bought an 60 GB SSD (OCZ Vertex 2). I want to use about 20 GB for swapcache. But I think about putting the system also on this SSD. To reduce writes I want to disable history keeping and mount the pfs with noatime. I also want to move /usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc and the build directories

Re: System on SSD

2011-05-10 Thread Matthias Rampke
On Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011 at 21:04, Sven Gaerner wrote: I also want to move /usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc and the build directories to a normal HDD. Why? Isn't this where a SSD really shines? (the pkgsrc tree doesn't matter much because it doesn't contain the actual source, but I think you really

Re: System on SSD

2011-05-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :I just bought an 60 GB SSD (OCZ Vertex 2). I want :to use about 20 GB for swapcache. But I think about :putting the system also on this SSD. To reduce writes :I want to disable history keeping and mount the pfs :with noatime. I also want to move /usr/src and :/usr/pkgsrc and the build