[CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

Steven Crothers steven.crothers at gmail.com
Sat May 21 23:40:20 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:29 PM, yonatan pingle
<yonatan.pingle at gmail.com> wrote:
> if you use the SSD for swap, don't put anything important on them, I
> have managed to destroy a drive which was used for heavy swap
> operations.
> (insane experiment with KVM virtual machines got to that situation ).
> the machines used the drive as RAM. ( that was an intel drive! ).

I have to ask, how was your performance before death? I don't have a
sacrificial SSD laying around so I can't exactly test myself. I
imagine the gains had to be pretty high?

Were you running a 3 or 6 gbps sata bus?

-- 
Steven Crothers
steven.crothers at gmail.com



More information about the CentOS mailing list