linux-kernel - Re: Debugging system freezes on filesystem writes

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Message-ID: <523200EB.7000202@hibox.fi>
Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:59:07 +0300
From:	Marcus Sundman <marcus@...ox.fi>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Debugging system freezes on filesystem writes

On 12.09.2013 19:35, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 12-09-13 18:08:13, Marcus Sundman wrote:
>> And can I somehow "reset" whatever it is that is making it worse so
>> that it becomes good again? That way I could spend maybe 1 hour once
>> every few months to get it back to top speed.
>> Any other ideas how I could make this (very expensive and fairly new
>> ZenBook) laptop usable?
>    Well, I believe if you used like 70% or less of the disk and regularly
> (like once in a few days) run fstrim command, I belive the disk performance
> should stay at a usable level.

At 128 GB it is extremely small as it is, and I'm really struggling to 
fit all on it. Most of my stuff is on my NAS (which has almost 10 TB 
space), but still I need several code repositories and the development 
environment and a virtual machine etc on this tiny 128 GB thing.

So, if I used some other filesystem, might that allow me to use a larger 
portion of the SSD without this degradation? Or with a much slower rate 
of degradation?

And at some point it will become unusable again, so what can I do then? 
If I move everything to my NAS (and maybe even re-create the 
filesystem?) and move everything back, might that get rid of the FTL 
fragmentation? Or could I somehow defragment the FTL without moving away 
everything?

Regards,
Marcus

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