netbook vs tablet

[JD]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Fedora 17?  The page I reference seems to have F17 working somewhat
>> > better than you report.
>>
>> With a keyboard permanently attached ...
>>
>> > I might as well stay with Android.  I actually have to start working
>> > with it for my day job.  I work for Verizon Enterprise Systems and my
>> > research is leading me to working on some product development. Sigh.  I
>> > LIKE research; kind of like Medcalf back at Xerox....
>>
>> One of the problems with trying to drop Linux onto most tablets is the
>> complete lack of a real disk subsystem, just slow SD card interfaces.
>> That really hurts although it can still be usable.
>
>
> Bad performance could be the result of 'less than optimal' SD cards.
> Even slow-rated cards (Class 4) sometimes outperform fast (Class 10) cards
> depending on what you do with them.  Checkout the following analysis:
>
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12330898

I agree as far as SD card performance grade.
When you switch to the Extreme level of performance (45MB/s read/write),
you will see almost hard drive level of performance. Of course, you must
be aware of what happens to SD card when written to very often.
So I would suggest that you mount you /tmp and /var/tmp and your home dir
on some other drive.