Quills to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?Quills to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareQuillsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoOoh, so… Would a crucial P3 2280 500gb fall into this category?
minus-squareQuillsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoOh, saad didn’t knew that, so like, that means this ssd is super bad? And should i remove the swap here? (I have 8gb of ram and 4 of swap) Oh and how to i set up Zram?
minus-squaredosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzalinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIf you only have 8gb you’re probably swapping a lot, depends on what you do with your PC. Anyway, to set up zram the easiest way is to try this: https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator/tree/main Also, take a look at the zram page on the arch wiki, even if you’re not using arch it’s very well made: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram
minus-squareQuillsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI usually only see swapping when I’m like, playing on big Minecraft modpacks which i don’t usually do much, but ok thanks!
Ooh, so… Would a crucial P3 2280 500gb fall into this category?
P3 is QLC, yes
Oh, saad didn’t knew that, so like, that means this ssd is super bad? And should i remove the swap here? (I have 8gb of ram and 4 of swap)
Oh and how to i set up Zram?
If you only have 8gb you’re probably swapping a lot, depends on what you do with your PC.
Anyway, to set up zram the easiest way is to try this: https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator/tree/main Also, take a look at the zram page on the arch wiki, even if you’re not using arch it’s very well made: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram
I usually only see swapping when I’m like, playing on big Minecraft modpacks which i don’t usually do much, but ok thanks!