On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Juan Orti Alcaine
<j.orti.alcaine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2012/5/24 Gerry Reno <greno(a)verizon.net>
>
> What does Fedora do currently, if anything, to optimize for solid-state drives
(SSD).
>
> Things like swap and logging can generate a huge number of writes. So I suppose
those should maybe be placed on a
> rotating drive if one is available but if not does Fedora do anything to reduce the
amount of writes? Or is everything
> related to SSD the responsibility of the user?
>
Apart from correctly aligning the partitions, I think there are no
more optimizations done by Fedora.
I use a SSD and to get the best performance I use ext4 directly on the
partitions, without LVM, Luks, RAID, etc. Also, here are a few tips:
- Mount options:
noatime to reduce writes.
discard if your unit supports TRIM
Yeah those too make sense (even though realatime should be enough).
- Change the default scheduler:
I created /etc/rc.d/rc.local with:
#!/bin/bash
/bin/echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
This does not gain you much and hurts in some workloads.
- Disable the readahead service:
systemctl disable systemd-readahead-collect.service
systemctl disable systemd-readahead-replay.service
systemd should just do that by default (it disables it already when
running on a VM).