On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru> 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?
Be extremely careful about performance on low cost SSDs. I buy SanDisk thumb drives routinely and they don't come close to matching M.2 NVMe SSD speeds. If you can get a high-performance 32GB SSD for 25 Euro, please let us know. I will be surprised if you can. Looking at Newegg, the cheapest M.2 NVMe SSE they have is about $50. I would worry a lot about the performance of anything cheaper than that. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org