SSD on desktop linux

[Jamon Camisso]

On 13-01-18 11:28 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well in general you want to avoid swapping, but if you are going to swap
> having it be fast is nice.
> 
> USB keys are a different story.  They often have awful wear leveling.
> Proper SSDs generally do better.
> 
> Of course if you actually write swap a lot, then you are trying to do
> something your machine isn't equiped for.  Buy more ram.

That and put /tmp and /var/tmp on virtual tmpfs filesystems that use
said RAM. Quite an improvement, even if you are stuck with spinning
disks for most other storage.

Jamon

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