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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.<br>
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On Mar 9, 2016, at 7:49 PM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users <<a
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Bruce: thanks. The link you provided is the most lucid
discussion I've read on the subject.<br>
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<div><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
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<div> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Adding an SSD and a light Linux kept this notebook out of the
Goodwill bin.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/03/2016 11:00 AM, Leon
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type="cite">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. <br>
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The next bit of confusion to me is "partition alignment"
and/or "partition optimization." How do you partition to
obtain the desired partition alignment? <br>
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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. <br>
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I googled for 'linux sdd optimization' and found this:<br>
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