[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

[Stephan Althaus]

On 8/16/21 1:35 AM, Carl Brewer wrote:
> On 16/08/2021 9:29 am, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Carl Brewer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am using a pair of Samsung 250GB M.2 SATA SSDs for boot for many
>>>> years already (since 2015) with no issues.
>>>
>>> Are you putting swap onto something else or just letting it use the
>>> SSDs?
>>
>> Swap is using the default so it is using the SSDs.
>>
>> There is sufficient RAM so that swap is always idle and thus it
>> causes no wear.
>
>
> Nice.  I have 32 GB, should be enough. Thank you. I'm off to grab a
> couple of M.2s and see how they go.
>
> Carl
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Hi!

Remember that firefox likes if there is plenty of swap configured! It
does not use much though.

i have 32GB ram and 32GB swap configured, it reduces the amount of
available disk space in the rpool but the 218GB of my root mirror are fine.

Stephan