On Sat, 12 May 2018 08:28:31 +0100, nev young
 declaimed the following:

>
>The web server burned out the first SD card after about 4 months but the
>replacement is still running after almost 5 years. There are 5 websites
>with many SD writes from the logs, emails and weather data.
>

 I managed to kill an SD card in a couple of days (though I didn't
conclude it was dead until the third time rebuilding from NOOBS install).

 Do not run the HINT benchmark (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_INTegration \
http://www.cs.kent.edu/~farrell/cc11/reference/hint/ ) with a swap file on
the SD card! (Unfortunately, under Linux without a swap file, the
out-of-memory killer kills the benchmark before it can report results; on a
quad-core ARM running no-OS/bare, the end of (compiled) allocated heap is
detected when malloc() reports NOMEM, and the benchmark finishes. Under
Linux, it runs consuming VM/swap until a pass takes longer than some
parameter.) I did buy a USB disk before killing too many more SD cards (I
likely shortened the life of my BeagleBone Black eMMC too; though it was
small enough that HINT didn't get too far before exiting).



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