Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:26:57 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple of questions about SSDs Message-ID: <20201014152657.31e26ece@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20201014113635.ce39d02e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <fee9e64d-4b27-d1cf-11c5-5af9ffa99935@netfence.it> <20201014113635.ce39d02e.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:36:35 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > > Is anyone using Poudriere on SSDs? Are there any measures of the > > impact on wear? > > No, I'm still using rotating rust for that. ;-) > > But you're absolutely thinking into the right direction: > Running poudriere causes a lot of writes, it's not just > limited to swap (which gets activated only if RAM is full). > During ports building, lots of files are being written, > and _that_ probably is the significant question here. For any port building I do I have the work directory on tmpfs backed by swap. With enough memory this eliminates the non-essential writes to the drive leaving just the install or package writes. I don't know whether it's sensible to do this with poudiere. I gather it relies on ZFS snapshots for efficiency.
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