With a new SSD the laptop is quieter and feels faster than before. I want to keep it that way, which (still) means keeping the number of writes to it down. OpenSUSE has some tips, as does Fedora, but they leave a few bits untouched which might be useful, so I'm taking note here.


 - Make /tmp a tmpfs filesystem. This means no longer relying on /tmp across reboots, but those are pretty rare since I usually just suspend-to-RAM.
 - Make /var/log tmpfs, too. This is an agressive optimization, but I think it's acceptable for a laptop.
 - Disable scheduler on disk sda, force syslog to write to /var/log in RAM.
 - Set syslog to log warn and above only.

The hard part is getting rid of a .xsession-errors that keeps growing (and getting written to). KDM can be configured to write the file elsewhere (and that's documented) but you still need to hack the Xsession script to stop X from (re-)creating that file. I kept meaning to write down what I did, but .. good intentions and all.

Speaking of good intentions: I'll be at FOSDEM, mostly at the KDE booth (everyone at the booth has also written "but I hope to attend some talks, too" on the schedule, so we'll see. It's been quite some time since I remember sitting with Anne-Marie at the bar across from Manneken Pis, ordering all the beers we couldn't pronounce.