On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 18:47 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:10:26AM -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> >
> > Interesting points. Until recently I didn't concern myself with
> > such speeds
> > much, but used all default settings. I'm now retired and have time
> > on my
> > hand
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:32:00 +0100
> From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer)
>
> > Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:57:11 -0400
> > From: Michael Shell
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:29:00 +0100
> > Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to both of you for this thread - I had assumed that only
> > > DataCe
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:57:11 -0400
> From: Michael Shell
>
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:29:00 +0100
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> > Thanks to both of you for this thread - I had assumed that only
> > DataCenter-grade products (as in "unaffordable") were nvme, and those
> > (of course) have ridiculous
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:29:00 +0100
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Thanks to both of you for this thread - I had assumed that only
> DataCenter-grade products (as in "unaffordable") were nvme, and those
> (of course) have ridiculous prices.
Bearing in mind that I haven't played with SSD's (yet), but lookin
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:41:34PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 21:37 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 23:36 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > > As mentioned in my previous email, I got a Sumsung 250GB SSD 960 EVO
> > > M.2. Apparently the M.2 SSD drives
On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 21:41 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> Hmm, maybe I'm getting mixed up in what M.2 actual means. I though
> M.2 was NVME.
> BTW, before my new purchase, I never heard of M.2 or NVME. Its shows
> how out of touch
> I've been in regards to new hardware technology. It was the sale
On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 21:37 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 23:36 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > As mentioned in my previous email, I got a Sumsung 250GB SSD 960 EVO
> > M.2. Apparently the M.2 SSD drives are much faster than the SATA SSD
> > drives.
> > FYI, the device shows u
On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 23:36 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> As mentioned in my previous email, I got a Sumsung 250GB SSD 960 EVO
> M.2. Apparently the M.2 SSD drives are much faster than the SATA SSD
> drives.
> FYI, the device shows up as /dev/nvme0n1.
>
Depends on the drive. A SATA-based SSD ov
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:10:26AM -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
>
> Interesting points. Until recently I didn't concern myself with such speeds
> much, but used all default settings. I'm now retired and have time on my
> hands, and am getting a new CPU, MB and memory. I've been a bit confused by
On 4/24/2017 11:16 PM, Michael Shell wrote:
Bruce,
Not to suggest that your results are anything less than the perfect truth
of the reality of the matter, but I'm a bit surprised by this. Can I ask
what kind of hard drive you had - was it anything especially fast?
Also, I think memory speed
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 12:09 -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm thinking
of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as
Samsung 960 EVO).
I assume that going through the entire LFS installa
Michael Shell wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:28:36 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
As for performance, I once did an automated build in a ramdisk. There
was no IO other than to RAM. The total speedup was 8% which is barely
noticeable if at all. LFS is CPU bound.
Bruce,
Not to suggest that yo
On 25 April 2017 at 14:42, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 13:28 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> > > Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm
> thinking
> > > of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as
> > >
On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 13:28 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> > Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm thinking
> > of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as
> > Samsung 960 EVO).
> >
> > I assume that going through the enti
On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 12:09 -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm thinking
> of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as
> Samsung 960 EVO).
>
> I assume that going through the entire LFS installation from squa
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:28:36 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> As for performance, I once did an automated build in a ramdisk. There
> was no IO other than to RAM. The total speedup was 8% which is barely
> noticeable if at all. LFS is CPU bound.
Bruce,
Not to suggest that your results are anyt
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:43:56PM +0200, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
>
(sorry, long reply with wide lines of output pasted into it)
> Years ago, there was chatter that one should refrain from building
> (compiling) on a flash memory based SSD. The theory was that, since
> flash memory is consumabl
Hi all!
>On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:28:36 -0500
>Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> > I assume that going through the entire LFS installation from square
> > one will work with these devices. But are there any downsides to
> > using them, as opposed to using exclusively hard drives? Wi
William Harrington wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:28:36 -0500 Bruce Dubbs
wrote:
LFS is CPU bound
In all fairness, it is hardware bound, not just CPU. When building from
source it relies on CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and the solid/hard drive
being used. It is not just CPU bound. Please be careful
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:28:36 -0500
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> LFS is CPU bound
In all fairness, it is hardware bound, not just CPU. When building from source
it relies on CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and the solid/hard drive being used. It is
not just CPU bound. Please be careful in what you state. It isn
Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm thinking
of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as
Samsung 960 EVO).
I assume that going through the entire LFS installation from square one
will work with these devices. But are
Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm thinking
of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as
Samsung 960 EVO).
I assume that going through the entire LFS installation from square one
will work with these devices. But are there any downsides to
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