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Subject: Re: Swap on SSD
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:58:59 +0000
Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> wrote:

> So why not use a page file instead? Or better still multiple page files 
> spread across all available physical disks?

	You don't want the overhead of going through a file system to get
to the swap pages, but having swap interleaved over all physical discs is a
good thing to do if you actually allow the swap to be used significantly.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>