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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 2018 19:59:36 +0000
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap on SSD
Message-ID:  <20180208195936.a846d1d371046b84658bd711@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <17345a3e119a97154cf3e8bb40beb84f@roundcube.fjl.org.uk>
References:  <alpine.OSX.2.21.1802051507540.42615@ary.qy> <de600d709ef24c7b65f22963d72040e6@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> <396EC97D-AF5C-4D37-9172-7212B3B0BDDB@kreme.com> <20180208075746.917d9319074bd831af69eacd@sohara.org> <17345a3e119a97154cf3e8bb40beb84f@roundcube.fjl.org.uk>

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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.

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



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