From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 14 15:57:47 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF53BDA79E for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm24-vm7.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm24-vm7.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.31]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C2251FCB for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:57:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473868489; bh=RLQ4a02Pa6HoF0jVfICVqr66bG1oq6B+SHGPzIpNEFA=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=GRjrEx5AjSzDWWs98RYjM3YsNozLwATB6CzZu6OhxHob+DCXyIP9zI/aDFSlwxOKLYvsxUQ1cb+BZpyYpxhAqypmrqyQJzoKVIy9DD6LWH+wk4V6Mfg0LqfiRsqcVn7KRLymsXN0x/KNadaSJANCk6w6k7srd7ntekr87+zUjG3Ak9Ck9SFImNzlEQlLjHteZvrhtkLFi3E+3km9Rdl8fNVUmRq5Dq8ia65o/IgcsJQ9E5z1u9Vd7iFm/ShKHbmzjCcLE7yz0YnjveKVf1FxHSFFKBPhfDSqlgBQp/7nShmYFwT8ZhMcNQTHVxLtE55Bb0DjTm2mfwistnHQjIZGmQ== Received: from [212.82.98.57] by nm24.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2016 15:54:49 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.101] by tm10.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2016 15:54:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp138.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2016 15:54:49 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 433237.24606.bm@smtp138.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: AZRiwcEVM1mN49gRgxVhWxh4wcOW_ico4vEnYTZ_HC5agY8 KmOMt_NHqrxedZlsPoZEKe8Y8vAzICgVVoBnmuA7M845yXnsi4jrqF9GjFN0 XhdD0WnUEQIMDv.HlmWzJBJ6gnpSgML9U1qwFz5bsJSkFbFd1KqBmLTXOchi UXbCVMGBDcGW5YOd7bkZHy0m7F8LqaGLRanrKVoASr65O74W_TFpNqUQOx.F hZGQAVisTyXDUy9iDJrQ9xOAyU__CkxeLXqW.WyXfzQ2aDwt5KbxaK.Ai3Xk EgqjlGx36Eyq8cb0yqBiOKgBsszbTRUKZ_EESbSj4Ibg_0hP6j4d5Hqd5gJz Cqgm7iMiRUVr7y1dIIpZV3hl_Af53b17gf6qaPbtJceGsxAlGFf_53jGTzVS 0HepAiXYox7OpfuuSoTNkoIZYcX7wtSdCHhXRV6ltH0XKmWbZNrEaQY1QTUF TGzIjeoHM3H4_GMSj7a5TK_QsaZhDrNEaE72T_hQBXov94zaNrZMUS2twhC8 P4mZsCuvm1ZNA_jx53UGmXh0WnN99hKq_7F1xWB3zQrM4vgQAUtQkB9k- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:54:49 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160914175449.185d12b0@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0-2-ge48b739 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:57:47 -0000 On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:03:49 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >I do almost everything like that on tmpfs. That was my suggestion, too. However, it has got one pitfall, the size of tmpfs. At least on Linux a swap doesn't help, if tmpfs should run out of space. Anyway, I nearly compile everything in tmpfs with just 1.9 GiB, just sometimes I enlarge it to 3 GiB or directly use the hard disk. A kernel not necessarily fails, but could fail to build with just 1.9 GiB, something like Firefox fails with 1.9 GiB, but at the moment I can't remember that 3 GiB ever was too small. I've got 4 GiB or RAM, but a little bit less is available, so a modern machine with much more than 4 GiB RAM should allow to chose a huge enough tmpfs. Regards, Ralf