[Watford] New machine

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:32:17PM +0100, David Edmondson wrote:

> It's your decision, of course.  I bought the smallest I could (40G MSATA for a
> laptop, so the spinning disk is still there) and keep just the OS and the core
> parts of my home directory on it.  The difference in performance for many
> operations really is astonishing.

That might be interesting; my /home / and /usr come to ~ 35G allocated, used
about 60% of that.

Given that I will have RAM by the bucketfull I would have thought that I/O on /
would have been minimal ... but running atop shows a lot of writes to /, I
wonder why (/tmp is a separate partition) ? Looks as if the lm-profiler tools
will help ....



Video cards, I am not interested in lots of graphics, but on motherboard
graphics uses system RAM - which will presumably slow the system down. So paying
#25-30 ish for a modest card might seem worth it.

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