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Using an SSD as swap?

Subject: Using an SSD as swap?
From: feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org (Daniel Feenberg)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:06:14 -0500 (EST)
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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

References:
- Using an SSD as swap?
  - From: omegahalo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Chris O'Connell)
- Using an SSD as swap?
  - From: jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org (Jack Coats)

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