Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
filesystem which resides on the SSD. Is it good, bad or irrelevant for the SSD ? Mostly irrelevant, I think. I've been using just ordinary soft updates as there is bug fixing going on with SU+J. fsck on the SSD is very fast anyway, so SU+J is needed less. And there's a little less writing b

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-06-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Warren Block wrote: Thank you very much for the useful tips. One more question regarding SSD. The FreeBSD installer enabled journaled soft-updates on the filesystem which resides on the SSD. Is it good, bad or irrelevant for the SSD ? Mostly irrelevan

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-06-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
Warren Block wrote: [dd] > >>> I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really need to? Is > >>> anything else advisable? > >> > >> If it's not aligned, there can be a pretty significant performance > >> drop. Please show the output of 'gpart show' on that drive if it's GPT > >> (gpa

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Warren Block wrote: I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I r

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Victor Sudakov
Warren Block wrote: > > > > I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following > > tweaking so far: > > > > 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). > > > > 2. mount -o noatime > > > > 3. tunefs -t enable > > > > I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really n

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really ne

9.0 on SSD

2012-05-30 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really need to? Is anything else advisable? There is