Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Made a little mistake in setting up partitions for installation - didn't set up the /home partition so the new system doesn't find it - doh!! I remember now what I have to do - set the partition but not format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien 13 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Thanks Gina for starting this topic I had no Idea about the negative side of SSD, hope your installation goes well from now. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 23 minutes ago, Alien 13 said: Phew I have 16Gb ram the upgrade to 32Gb made my eyes water so I didnt bother hope its enough. Alan straight sailing for you now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Installed OS and included software fine and downloads etc. now show. Now to look up how I install PixInsight again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 PixInsight installed and working - updates installed too. Apart from the downloading of updates everything ran much faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 53 minutes ago, Alien 13 said: Phew I have 16Gb ram the upgrade to 32Gb made my eyes water so I didnt bother hope its enough. Alan a swapfile can slow the machine down in your case you didn't need one as you have ample memory to fulfil that process. did you disable it/not install one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien 13 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 1 minute ago, fozzybear said: a swapfile can slow the machine down in your case you didn't need one as you have ample memory to fulfil that process. did you disable it/not install one I didn't install one but how could I check? Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 TeamViewer installed and working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4N Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 In Linux you can adjust the "swapiness" of the swap file so that it will only use it when it actually runs out of memory. If you don't have one and run out of memory something will likely get killed by the OS to keep the system stable but this will also likely result in loss of whatever you were working on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 fdisk -l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 I haven't linked to a swap-file so there isn't one ATM but if needed I can re-link it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 http://www.tecmint.com/fdisk-commands-to-manage-linux-disk-partitions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, Gina said: I haven't linked to a swap-file so there isn't one ATM but if needed I can re-link it. with 16gb or ram I don't think you will need one but if performance drops off you could add a small swapfile . procedure. processor then processor cache(ram 4-8mb) then ram in your case 16gb if that is full then disk swapfile then the other way back. andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokehoba Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 1 hour ago, Alien 13 said: This is scary stuff I just paid around £1800 for my lappy and the thought that it only gets 2 years is very worrying. Alan Don't worry. SSDs do last longer than 2 years. My works laptop (with single SSD) is over 4 years old, used 8-10 hours every day and is still going strong. I upgraded my astro Lenovo to a single SSD over 2 years ago, and that's fine too, and it's been subjected to some extremes in temperature and humidity when in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, Jokehoba said: Don't worry. SSDs do last longer than 2 years. My works laptop (with single SSD) is over 4 years old, used 8-10 hours every day and is still going strong. I upgraded my astro Lenovo to a single SSD over 2 years ago, and that's fine too, and it's been subjected to some extremes in temperature and humidity when in use. http://www.hardcoreware.net/mtbf-ssd-what-does-it-mean-for-you/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, fozzybear said: http://www.hardcoreware.net/mtbf-ssd-what-does-it-mean-for-you/ I quite agree but the norm for a swapfile/page file on windows/Linux is to put this on a non SSD drive albeit if you did it would be fast but you are killing the drive and that is not what is was meant to be yes newer drives can handle it with trim but again you are limiting their lifespan that is all. at the end of the day anything can kill your machine blocked ventilator, poor power supply, mains fluctuations you are at the hands of the gods.but if you are after performance and price not a question then go for it. Gina has plenty of RAM so she is ok and shouldn't see any dropoff in performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Now running BPP calibrate only on sets of bias, dark and light frames with a master flat. Seems a bit faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 System Monitor shows 4 processors running at 100% and 3.9GB of RAM in use. I reckon this could be speeded up using a RAM_drive OTOH it's processor limited so maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzybear Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 29 minutes ago, Gina said: System Monitor shows 4 processors running at 100% and 3.9GB of RAM in use. I reckon this could be speeded up using a RAM_drive OTOH it's processor limited so maybe not. let everything settle down before doing anything go and have a cup tee maybve updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 I've installed the updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101nut Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Don't stress unduly about the SSD Gina, just keep about 25% space free. The Samsungs are great - EVO is ok, Pro is best. My 500GB Pro has been running as a sole Win 7 drive since 2011. Total writes for new Sammy retail devices are about 2TB per day for five years which gives the average user loads of elbow room ... Just don't do silly things like, as has been said, hibernate and you'll be fine. Sit back and enjoy the speed :-) AndyG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien 13 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 I have just noticed my lappy has SSD info about power on hours total read/write bytes and percentage life used, safe so far... The info must be available on most PCs I would have thought. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted September 6, 2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2016 Thanks Andy and Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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