Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 05/13/2011 02:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 5/12/2011 5:19 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I added an SSD in my system and moved the root filesystem to the SSD 
> > (which
> > includes now also most of /home in my system). I spin down the 
> > regular hard
> > disks and the system is a lot more quiet than before :-)
> >
> > Sometimes though something is accessing data on the disk drives, 
> > which I do
> > not understand.
>
> Did you relocate swap to the SSD?
According to some information on the various lists, you should *not* run 
swap on
a SSD, because the SSD has a limited number of read/write cycles, and 
swap uses
them up way too quickly. I guess you could use a second ssd for swap and 
when it
died, throw it out and replace it.

-doug

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