SSD Configuration

[Leon Goldstein]

The link you provided says that the current Ubuntu and Mint handle trim 
by a cron job setting, so it seems that I have nothing more to do, 
except possibly adjust swappiness, although it seems that I am not 
making much, if any use of swap with sufficient onboard RAM.



On 03/09/2016 08:41 PM, bmarsh--- via Linux-users wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2016, at 7:49 PM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users 
> <linux-users at linux-sxs.org <mailto:linux-users at linux-sxs.org>> wrote:
>
>> Bruce: thanks.  The link you provided is the most lucid discussion 
>> I've read on the subject.
>>
>
> <Blush>.   I've been running 2 SSD's now for about a year and I 
> haven't done ant tuning.  Guess it is time for me to do that.
>
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>> I just installed Linux Mint 17.3 "Mate" 32-bit on an old Toshiba 
>> notebook I got from a friend.  He had "upgraded" to Win 10 and 
>> performance was glacially slow.  Onboard RAM is 2 GB.
>>
>> I installed a PNY 120 GB SSD and loaded Mint 17.3 from a thumb 
>> drive.  "Mate" is a relatively light weight desktop and leaves plenty 
>> of free memory, so swap is minimal or even eliminated. Performance 
>> with the puny Atom CPU is quite acceptable.  Boot takes about 25 seconds.
>>
>> Adding an SSD and a light Linux kept this notebook out of the 
>> Goodwill bin.
>>
>> On 03/04/2016 09:29 PM, Bruce Marshall via Linux-users wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2016 11:00 AM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users wrote:
>>>> I know many of you have been using SSD's for many years so I'm 
>>>> hoping you guys can clear up some questions I have on how to use a 
>>>> SSD.  I have gleaned so far from various Linux fora a lot of 
>>>> confusing and sometimes contradictory advice on using trim.  Some 
>>>> say insert  "noatime,discard" in each partition line in /etc/fstab, 
>>>> others say to run trim as a chron job periodically, others say run 
>>>> trim at boot, while some say not to worry about it.
>>>>
>>>> The next bit of confusion to me is "partition alignment" and/or 
>>>> "partition optimization."  How do you partition to obtain the 
>>>> desired partition alignment?
>>>>
>>>> Bonus question:  is there a utility to trim Win XP?  I have Win XP 
>>>> on a computer and use it one time a year, when I install my tax 
>>>> software.  I'd like to clone the drive containing Win XP as well as 
>>>> several Linuces to a SSD, after clearing up the questions I asked 
>>>> above.
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I googled for 'linux sdd optimization' and found this:
>>>
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>>>       SSD: how to optimize your Solid State Drive for Linux Mint
>>>       17.3, Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian
>>>
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>>>
>>> https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd
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