On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:02:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Grumpy Old Man says: sell the SSD and buy more RAM.
Already did. Get more RAM that is. I went from 4 to 8 GB. 16 is max and
I can go to 12 without swapping out existing memory. It's a work
machine, so I can't just sell extra parts away
Jörg-Volker Peetz:
>
> Did you enable the 'discard' mount option on your ext4 file system (see
> kernel-/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt) in order to make usage of
> the TRIM-ability of the SSD?
Me? -No, because my (1st gen) X25m model doesn't support TRIM.
J.
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On 08/05/2010 03:15 AM, Pasi Oja-Nisula wrote:
I have this:
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 37G 14G 22G 39% /
tmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 640K 9.4M 7% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G
Did you enable the 'discard' mount option on your ext4 file system (see
kernel-/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt) in order to make usage of
the TRIM-ability of the SSD?
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:47:02 +0200
Jochen Schulz wrote:
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> Total boot time is about 30-35 seconds, depending on how fast I enter my
> disk encryption + login passwords. For chart rendering, I have
> temporarily disabled my encrypted /home.
When I switched over to full-disk encryption, I deci
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Andrei Popescu:
> On Vi, 06 aug 10, 21:14:21, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> What about boot time? My laptop (Thinkpad X200) boots up in less than
>> ten senconds (boot manager to GDM).
>
> Are you using anything special besides the (now default) parallel boot?
> I'm thinkin
On Vi, 06 aug 10, 21:14:21, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>
> What about boot time? My laptop (Thinkpad X200) boots up in less than
> ten senconds (boot manager to GDM).
Are you using anything special besides the (now default) parallel boot?
I'm thinking about readahead or similar stuff.
Regards,
Andrei
Brian Ryans:
> Quoting Jochen Schulz on 2010-08-05 04:27:26:
>
>> BTW, you can monitor lifetime writes with recent kernels for each
>> filesystem separately:
>>
>> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/manowar-home-crypt | grep ^Lifet
>> Lifetime writes: 785 GB
>>
>> This filesystem is almost e
Pasi Oja-Nisula:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>
>> You might want to read Ted T'so's blog entries regarding SSDs:
>> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/
>
> This is where the pain starts. I started looking at this and suddenly I
> was up to my neck in p
Quoting Jochen Schulz on 2010-08-05 04:27:26:
> BTW, you can monitor lifetime writes with recent kernels for each
> filesystem separately:
>
> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/manowar-home-crypt | grep ^Lifet
> Lifetime writes: 785 GB
>
> This filesystem is almost exactly 13 months old and
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> What you might want to find out is whether you have a G1 or G2 device.
> G2 supports the TRIM command which helps the SSD to keep up performance.
> Otherwise, performance degrades over time, especially when you keep the
> SSD nearly full. I h
Pasi Oja-Nisula:
>
> So basically I have root and home partitions and another disk
> for backups of the whole thing.
>
> Now I got a SSD disk, about which I don't really know much.
> It's a 160 GB Intel, so it should be quite ok.
"Quite ok" is "quite an understatement". :) Intel SSDs are still o
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