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Date:      Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:30:24 -0800
From:      Dennis Glatting <dg17@penx.com>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about  ZFS with log and cache on SSD with GPT
Message-ID:  <1327069824.77378.3.camel@btw.pki2.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F193D90.9020703@digiware.nl>
References:  <4F193D90.9020703@digiware.nl>

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On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:10 +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> CPU (4 core HT XEON@3Ghz) is more than powerful enough since the query
> rate is low, but the amount of data is huge. (50Gb)
> Memory (16G) could be better, but all slots are full. The server is
> not
> really swapping.
> 

In a few cases I have used SSDs for swap. The nice thing about SSDs is I
can sticky-tape them to the inside of a chassis. :)

I haven't read whether this is a good idea or a bad idea but I haven't
yet had any trouble.







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