SSD drives under Linux - discussion thread

[jpollard]

Believe it or not, a lot of people don't realize or believe that using tmpfs and not having swap is a sure way to deadlock the system.

[juhaszjozsef]

Hi!

thank you for the excellent topic(s) about SSD and Fedora. Very useful.
I foud this link which you might want to add:

Update For Fedora
Firefox will work with the given below procedure.
For Chrome
sudo gedit /usr/local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
Change line from
#Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U
TO
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --disk-cache-dir="/tmp/ram/"

OR
You can use following commands for the ease of use.
rm -rf ~/.cache/google-chrome
ln -s /tmp/ram/ ~/.cache/google-chrome

[Dan]

... that has cropped up since I have TRIM'ed and noatime'ed and "none /tmp tmpfs size=10% 0 0"'ed my laptop SSDs.

Gnome-terminal segfaults upon starting. (Whilst running Gnome3/Gnome Shell) It is easily corrected by logging out and back in, and it doesn't seem to be correlated with anything else, but it sure enough does. Previous to making the above mentioned adjustments, the problem did not surface. However, given the nature of intermittent issues, that one cannot be carved in stone as completely true.

Alas ... It is an intermittent occurrence, though, and may not be related at all, but having two seperate laptops,with two separate SSDs (different brands) present with the same symptoms ... one has to wonder. <....>

Methinks this one is going to be fun to chase down. <....>