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Subject: Re: questions about swap (partition and file)
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On 13 Feb 2020, at 07:34, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:03:26PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso via =
freebsd-questions wrote:
>>=20
>> It's usually not a good idea to have swap on a SSD.
>=20
> Why is this?=20
> For clarity, I mean a proper SSD not sdcard

Swap is written a lot and SSDs can fail faster if they are constantly =
being written to.

It=E2=80=99s not really that much of an issue with a modern SSD, but if =
you have a server that is really writing a lot to swap. Get more RAM and =
put swap on a rust drive.


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"I think so, Brain, but practicing docking procedures with a goat at
	zero G's=E2=80=94it's never been done!=E2=80=9D