Re: [Staffslug] Swap question
It's only a benefit if you've run out of memory (and swap use is
on-going) at the same time that you're trying to read/write from your
regular partitions.
Swap is generally very bad over more RAM, given the insanely slow speed
of reading/writing to disk when compared with RAM.
There's something to be said for using NAND flash memory as swap space,
particularly better-performing devices, given the low access times.. But
in reality, more RAM is the way forward except in a very small few,
desperate circumstances.
Tom
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 17:02 +0100, Chris Snow wrote:
It would appear to make sense to have swap on a separate disk if you
can if
you have apps that use the disk heavily.