On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > What you might want to find out is whether you have a G1 or G2 device. > G2 supports the TRIM command which helps the SSD to keep up performance. > Otherwise, performance degrades over time, especially when you keep the > SSD nearly full. I have read Intel recommends keeping some of the space > (5-10%) unpartitioned in order to avoid that effect.
Thanks Jochen. Lots of good information and pointers there. My SSD was actually a G2 device. There was also newer firmware for the disk available which I installed. >> Maybe set noatime option, > > Good idea, but I do that even on traditional hard disks anyway. I am > using 'nodelalloc' on my ext4, too.=20 Yes, I also found that I had noatime already on. >> but do I really need to deal with other filesystems than ext3? > > Not really. I converted my /home to ext4, just to try it out, but I > don't really know what I gain from that. ;-) I haven't switched home yet, so I have only programs on SSD. But I might also use ext4 for home. > You might want to read Ted T'so's blog entries regarding SSDs: > http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/ This is where the pain starts. I started looking at this and suddenly I was up to my neck in partition boundary alignment calculations. But I guess I finally managed to get them right. Probably wouldn't have made a difference even if I had skipped that part. So far so good. Bigger programs like OpenOffice and the like start noticeably quicker, but the difference is not as big as I thought. I'll see how the system feels once I get home transferred also. Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=qiv01mccjvxhxdd4jyqbuzstzo-uond9nn...@mail.gmail.com