From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 15:27:46 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 F0ABDBDBF59 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:27:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm20-vm1.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm20-vm1.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.243]) (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 6DA0E949 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:27:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473953087; bh=5O26wLXs1j8TrcqCVf0nsv3lJ4NTuGd04x8Bglme6bc=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=fSuPkEAvXtMi63iO1gStN95TRkHvHYIRRqOMG1d0y6twf7QpT8CmUK+hTcu0uabkX649UEzkIjGU62kXj6zaf6fWQ8nOAyZHepjYZzKT40+9mwjwPhUqwFVheje9XcYsfw4ANpkTYPoZWs4jjejm5D4amPPI0r1b22ej+Ijm1f0+MDpSHzkcAj82exIGi6eVWtbCNlFPwJ6vbKZfFC9BpkAWcaXzbMK4oNs95xY07kG4I/IJfy+4U8zfVKlcsv1HcZM0gqp0i6LySH+D7q0UFed9V26lWJnQcxn9NAxQMlhiqgRV3Ca8aK9EPpjsYB0a6u5t33U0U+tZJ6YBXv8N/g== Received: from [212.82.98.60] by nm20.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 15:24:47 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.74] by tm13.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 15:24:47 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp111.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 15:24:47 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 43495.18494.bm@smtp111.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: cXSc3d4VM1kNgk5rWl.d0kUoQBOxO7uTAGBEoX9gtyJ3_Nw JNb5zmaAoHAVL5x9ok1Gz9b5jeXkMhKfhMHIMn6KfoydCAgAILiQDZlVCmbt z.I7LkMvHF2I1FwV5uZujNhVAtZaBysysKKspFEwUSqR8yaAQG3iwAzvJ4hL icW3UdXp6V0xOKJSGpkjFOmK7FNqB5XSdYGCekj52KvSf48pOkteVAQDZ9bB ZrdE4ImGMNffYuTSUD4syShIGUc104185Bl.LjDqIdeL5btHuFqilc9a0Crn S2IKawoZ8z5USHOvnDzjN1FutXDymN45o8j.0IO1XsH9J09uNDq9NBaHtajw of9j.r.67uN57uDvjoqIB95wDzm8bbvfQizDhbgMlBOQv7gzr25eWPTjzjxd ciG0onBImrlXv9VvpowgsvjbCF1BbpyiFxRI5LycYXwLR6CiRzs09L4HDDm6 a3in7N2N78dgXB.FLyrz8LJo8fxHomQsANjQqMbu.5NVAD.wYa74t_OF_JcM uXRLdgKf.ILb6pXnJKnRMP0YuHCEY4dbxIGJNceBNvdW_DpR.7gnp X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:24:46 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915172446.7b018b87@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915161026.62dffff7@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160914175449.185d12b0@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914221954.00fb1d56@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160915013848.5564c238@archlinux.localdomain> <20160915140856.24af27ca@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160915155254.768f6f70@archlinux.localdomain> <20160915161026.62dffff7@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: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:27:47 -0000 On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:10:26 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >The important thing is that everything that can't (or shouldn't) be >discarded has to fit into swap+ram. Most desktops/workstations have >much more memory than they need, in which case you can safely allocate >swap plus most of the ram to tmpfs, if you want to. Ok, I didn't use FreeBSD since a while ago. On my Arch Linux, if the tmpfs is full, swap isn't used, so compiling, resp. building a package fails. However, since the OP worries about hard disk drives and building a lot of software, even if the OP shouldn't have too much RAM, buying new RAM usually isn't that expensive. Regards, Ralf