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On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:10 +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> CPU (4 core HT XEON@3Ghz) is more than powerful enough since the query
> rate is low, but the amount of data is huge. (50Gb)
> Memory (16G) could be better, but all slots are full. The server is
> not
> really swapping.
> 

In a few cases I have used SSDs for swap. The nice thing about SSDs is I
can sticky-tape them to the inside of a chassis. :)

I haven't read whether this is a good idea or a bad idea but I haven't
yet had any trouble.