[mythtv-users] OT: Get off my SSD?!

[Chase Douglas]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dave Richardson <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
> I have an IONITX with a solid state disk (SSD) as a front-end.  I have
> moved /tmp and /var/log to RAM drives in tmpfs to prevent frequent write
> activity to the SSD.  I had expected very little drive activity to be
> reported (as viewed by watching the HDD LED activity light) - however,
> it's still fairly busy and seems to have a pattern of activity.
>
> I need to figure out if there are processes still writing elsewhere to the
> system on a regular basis.  I will either turn off the processes or direct
> their activity to another tmpfs so that I can prolong the life of the SSD.
>
> I've tried using "lsof" command to figure out what's active, but I really
> don't understand what I'm seeing.  Any further guidance would be
> appreciated!

Did you make a swap partition? I assume you didn't, but I figured I
would ask since you didn't state one way or another. If you do have a
swap partition and you have enough ram to get away without one, then
you should disable it.