https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/swap-space-on-ssd-recommended/m-p/8221#M7428 <P>I have some Linux servers with only one ssd (Postville 2 X-25M 120GB) and a utilized 2GB swap partition (which is of course a partition of the ssd).</P><P></P><P>My question is, if this setup is recommended of if there could be any problems about lifetime in the future (because of the many read/writes on the swap partition)?</P><P>Do I need trimm support on the swap partition or is the supported Garbage Collection of this Intel SSD enough?</P><P></P><P>Kind Regards,</P><P></P><P>Marco</P> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:01:54 GMT idata 2011-03-06T05:01:54Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/swap-space-on-ssd-recommended/m-p/8221#M7428 <P>I have some Linux servers with only one ssd (Postville 2 X-25M 120GB) and a utilized 2GB swap partition (which is of course a partition of the ssd).</P><P></P><P>My question is, if this setup is recommended of if there could be any problems about lifetime in the future (because of the many read/writes on the swap partition)?</P><P>Do I need trimm support on the swap partition or is the supported Garbage Collection of this Intel SSD enough?</P><P></P><P>Kind Regards,</P><P></P><P>Marco</P> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:01:54 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/swap-space-on-ssd-recommended/m-p/8221#M7428 idata 2011-03-06T05:01:54Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/swap-space-on-ssd-recommended/m-p/8222#M7429 <P>Which distro and version? Linux 2.6.33 onward has supported TRIM. </P><P></P><P>Lifetime expentency has to do with your particular usage of the swap partition and OS handling of it. In Windows 7, reads outnumber writes by 40:1 on average (<A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx</A> <A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx</A>)</P><P></P><P>However, it your workload is exceeding the installed RAM then swap will obviously be more heavily utilized.</P><P></P><P>Basically, you may want to do some benchmarking and monitoring if you want to be sure.</P> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:53:49 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/swap-space-on-ssd-recommended/m-p/8222#M7429 idata 2011-03-06T19:53:49Z