| Rich Freeman on 16 Apr 2015 11:09:51 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] swappiness and ssd |
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Soren Harward <stharward@gmail.com> wrote: > Recent testing stats [0] 've seen are that consumer-grade SSDs are > good for at least 500TB of writes, and many survive well past 2PB. So > they're unlikely to be significantly degraded even by using them for a > swap drive. Those kinds of stats assume certain kinds of use patterns. Lots of internal writes to a swap file may or may not wear evenly across the entire SSD memory. I'm not saying it is a recipe for disaster, but I'd be careful in extrapolating benchmarks without understanding how they were collected. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug