Aren't these issues with ubuntu & SSD's related to TRIM scheduling or something like that?
Just asking.... rachel -- rachel polanskis <r.polans...@uws.edu.au> <gr...@exemail.com.au> > On 8 Feb 2014, at 11:37, James Linder <j...@tigger.ws> wrote: > > >> On 8/02/2014 5:33 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: >> I have a Lenovo thinkpad with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.00 Ghz with a GM >> 45 Chipset with 8 Gig of DDR III Ram >> >> Since I installed 12.04 LTR my lappy has slowed down and there appears to >> be memory issues, I am not able to open as many tabs as I was in the >> previous release 11.04 >> >> Facebook jams up and I am unable to use Google DOCS, could someone please >> suggest a way forward, and some diagnostic tests that I could run to pin >> point the issue. >> >> I have been considering getting an SSD drive and a new main board as one of >> the USB ports is non functional. >> >> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I have a mountain of >> research and assessments to do. > FWIW I put a kingston flash into 2 machines, a lap top and a desktop machine > both running SuSE 12.[23] both with fstab options including 'discard' > I'm glad I did the laptop. > The desktop machine, including mythbackend, showed no subjective performance > advantage even though myth makes heavy use of mysql. The flash reached it's > useby, running 24/7 after 2 years. It failed dramatically and the only > recovery was a complete reinstall and restore from backups. All along smart > reported ALL GOOD. > > The big advantage is you may have one rotating disk and as many flask disks > as you want. > http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/838/Fall2001/Papers/scsi-ata.pdf > And for the detractors I guess that it's worse now than ever! > > James > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
