On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:31:14 +, James Kirk wrote:
> I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop and I
> would like to not modify the standard configuration).
Yep, that's the same reason that I installed my debian onto my USB key
several years ago.
> Since SD is a flas
On 23/01/14 16:24, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 1/22/2014 11:22 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Defeating the cache causes a lot of I/O for flash storage.
>
> This is patently false. fsync() causes no additional write IO. It
> simply commits "right now". Buffer cache simply delays the writes. The
> S
On 1/22/2014 9:12 PM, Артур Истомин wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:10:35PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> The OP will be using a browser. Browser cache writes, index updates,
>> etc, will be far in excess of swap writes. If he uses Thunderbird
>> (IceDove) with GLODA and offline caching enab
On 1/22/2014 11:22 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Another thing that I did was to install 'eatmydata' in order to use
> the LD_PRELOAD library to disable fsync(). A lot of applications have
> added fsync() calls everywhere to disable the file system buffer
> cache.
fsync() doesn't disable the buffer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:10:35PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> The OP will be using a browser. Browser cache writes, index updates,
> etc, will be far in excess of swap writes. If he uses Thunderbird
> (IceDove) with GLODA and offline caching enabled, that will produce even
> more writes.
What
Ahoj,
Dňa Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:57:27 -0700 Bob Proulx napísal:
> I wouldn't say the slower device is of lower quality. By quality I
> was referring to the internal spares and firmware for managing them
> for wear leveling. A good quality card should last through a lot of
> write cycles. A poor
Slavko wrote:
> Bob Proulx napísal:
> > James Kirk wrote:
> > > Since SD is a flash memory and - as far as I know - it has a limited
> > > lifetime (in terms of I/O) not thought to run an OS,
> >
> > The quality of the SD depends upon the vendor. And unfortunately it
> > is a "market for lemons"
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Talking about tuning the Raspbery Pi folks set vm.swappiness=1 which I
> > disagree with. I suggest using the Linux upstream default of
> > vm.swappiness=60 or even higher. Proponents of disabling program swap
> > by setting it low say that they never
Hi,
Dňa Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:19:42 -0700 Bob Proulx napísal:
> James Kirk wrote:
> > I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop
> > and I would like to not modify the standard configuration).
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.
>
> > Since SD is a flash memory and - as far as I
On 1/21/2014 5:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> James Kirk wrote:
>> I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop
>> and I would like to not modify the standard configuration).
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.
>
>> Since SD is a flash memory and - as far as I know - it has a limited
>
On Tue 21 Jan 2014 at 22:31:14 +, James Kirk wrote:
> I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop and
> I would like to not modify the standard configuration).
>
> Since SD is a flash memory and - as far as I know - it has a limited
> lifetime (in terms of I/O) not tho
James Kirk wrote:
> I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop
> and I would like to not modify the standard configuration).
Sounds reasonable to me.
> Since SD is a flash memory and - as far as I know - it has a limited
> lifetime (in terms of I/O) not thought to run an O
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