Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:14:50 +0000 From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about swap (partition and file) Message-ID: <CAEJNuHzi4Nvd2R8fOGwjY29tULtQc8S%2BoV1am8zvfs-dr2n9rA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <24133.44304.52029.432558@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20200211155009.GA9715@bastion.zyxst.net> <r1uqaa$2vel$1@ciao.gmane.io> <20200213143411.GA14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <24133.44304.52029.432558@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 20:09, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > > tech-lists writes: > > > >It's usually not a good idea to have swap on a SSD. > > > > Why is this? > > The conventional wisdon: > Swap can involve lots of reads and lots of writes. > SSDs wear out quickly under heavy write load. > > This "wisdom" may no longer match reality. > (I have an SSD in my main workstation; it holds "/" and "/var", > both of which get minimal traffic.) I don't get the point of "fast drives". Applications load in memory. If you want a fast system, stick more RAM (and this is also a memo to myself). -- Ottavio Caruso
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