[ltp] SSD optimisation

Dan M. linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:12:12 -0500


If your distro supports trim and your ssd has poor garbage collection
I would suggest the discard option in your /etc/fstab in order to use
the kernel trim feature. Possibly change your scheduler to noop but
other than that nothing much is needed. If you want to stick with the
atime.

On 11/01/2011, Leon Brokken <leon.brokken@med.lu.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> am awaiting the arrival of a T410s with 160GB Intel SSD. Is it
> worthwhile to take measures that prevent excessive writes (e.g. mount
> with noatime), or is this not relevant any longer in the later SSD devices?
>
> Cheers, Leon.
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