On 05/11/2018 18:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:
No, based on the smartctl output:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Ah, OK. I forgot that was there to look back at -- sorry.
I use "lazytime" mount option. It may become a default option.
I will check that out.
But they seek faster on SSD :-)
True, but I can't tell any difference.
I have a machine that needs more RAM, but the board can't take more. Placing the swap on SSD gave the machine a huge speed difference.
Urgh. I try to avoid swap on SSD. My home laptop has 2 SSDs -- a big one with Win10 and a shared data partition, and a small one with Linux. I use the "zram" tool for dynamic compressed swapfiles in RAM for that, to avoid swapping to disk and wearing it out. It rarely hits swap at all.
Like this laptop: has 4 Gigs, and is currently using 1.6 of swap. I'm only running XFCE, Thunderbird and Firefox. Ah, I forgot clamd, takes half a gig, and I'm only using my trick on the desktop, is not automated yet. I must go back to it.
I do still use a 4GB laptop, but mainly for experimenting with PC DOS 7.1, Haiku and Oberon. None of them need all the RAM. I also have Devuan, though, with XFCE, but that's pretty light and the OS does not do much hard work. I see your predicament there -- I have an occasionally-used machine that is maxed out at 8GB and it really wants more -- but I'm not sure I'd burn the life of an SSD for it. You might find ZRAM useful. And if it were me, I would lose clamd in that config. You are not going to catch anything on Linux. I don't know how to rephrase "caveat emptor" to mean "Windows users beware" but you get what I mean, I'm sure. https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/501160-Using-zram-amp-zswap -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org