'Is it unhealthy for SSD if I write 'vital signal' to check a python code is running?
A python program that I'm building was used to die for no apparent reason. I couldn't figure out the reason, so my workaround was to add few lines that write the time to a 'vitality' file every time a certain line within the program is executed, which happens about every 0.1 seconds.
A separate script reads the 'vitality' file every 1 second, and when the vital sign doesn't update for, say 10 seconds, the script kills the program and restarts it.
So far this workaround has been working great on the original problem, but now I'm rather concerned if the SSD will degrade by this or not.
Does writing 10 digits of unixtimestamp every 0.1s to a file have negligible effect on SSD health, or would it degrade the SSD fast?
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