On 27/11/2017 00:18, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
Hello,
I have a 8Gb Pengium G2120 system with a normal WD Red 3 TB hard drive. Most of the time it actually does what I want just fine.
Unfortunately, sometimes it starts to swap and then becomes very slow immediately. I tried reducing swappiness to 10, now it starts to swap in less cases - but when it does it basically hangs for a few minutes.
I can't afford a full upgrade (CPU. Mobo, RAM), especially with current RAM prices. And I am not sure I should spend money on more DDR3 RAM now, especially since I am not exactly sure if what I have is DDR3 or DDR3L and how new additional RAM will affect the system.
So I wonder - would it help to get a small (16-32G) SATA SSD and use it just for swapping?
As this is for swap only, I can get a cheap SSD (if it breaks I just lose one session). I can get a 32Gb SSD for about 25 Euro, while an extra 8GB of RAM would apparently set me back more like 50 Euro. But will this work?
Here's another possibility, I also have a system slowdown with swap, my single sata drive is quite slow due to the mb only having sata 2. I bought a 1T usb drive with usb 3 capabilities and then added a usb 3 adapter card. This gives me a much better transfer rate than sata 2 and just using a swapfile instead of my swap partition fixes the slowdowns. I would use it as for permanent swap partition except I left the microsoft partition and it now has to much important data to risk any repatrtitioning. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org