Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast
Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
> So why would switching to an SSD slow hibernation times? Frankly I can't
> think of any reasons (comparing apples to apples) why a faster drive
> should lead to slower performance. Possibly it's an interface issue -
> the SSD's controller is getting swamped - while the HDD the poster had
> been using was able to handle a faster continuous write.
Maybe the alignment of the swap partition is off? SSD react very badly
if you don't align your partitions to their erase block size. This is
why I always recommend to align them to 1MB boundaries as most SSDs
available today seem to have erase block sizes in the 64KB to 512KB
range.
Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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