Using an SSD as swap?

Thu Dec 2 10:06:14 EST 2010

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jack Coats wrote:

> If you can find a solid state drive that is NOT flash based and has great I/O
> ability, I would suggest putting swap on it, if you swap a lot.  Prior
> to that adding
> more main memory is probably a better idea.
>

How about battery backed Ram?

   http://www.anandtech.com/show/1742
   http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255

Daniel Feenberg