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Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:15:11 +0000 Received: by smtp426.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 37fb3f975bb38fcde53fcec78c0b794a; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pj1-f52.google.com with SMTP id dw13so2852157pjb.4 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:15:07 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXu5go7H3/+0d6JDa0MzxB/3lOruSJ4XcuRf+87rfpiJPY3Xjee XXEy46DZOjb3oZrzxhUkwxJR02eKjUd9Tvvoq3U= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqx5XXeYd2Qus69qimY7sZOtHo/5nfNnKCEZapicW4hDySfO7otV2BsciSJsngnkXLu84EkZ0rOfG7hQXEgf9OM= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:8bc9:: with SMTP id r9mr29381535plo.48.1581624906857; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:15:06 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200211155009.GA9715@bastion.zyxst.net> <20200213143411.GA14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <24133.44304.52029.432558@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <24133.44304.52029.432558@jerusalem.litteratus.org> From: Ottavio Caruso Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:14:50 +0000 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: questions about swap (partition and file) To: Robert Huff Cc: tech-lists , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; 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IP_SCORE(0.00)[ip: (3.48), ipnet: 66.163.184.0/21(1.16), asn: 36646(0.93), country: US(-0.05)]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[yahoo.com.dwl.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:15:13 -0000 On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 20:09, Robert Huff wrote: > > > tech-lists writes: > > > >It's usually not a good idea to have swap on a SSD. > > > > Why is this? > > The conventional wisdon: > Swap can involve lots of reads and lots of writes. > SSDs wear out quickly under heavy write load. > > This "wisdom" may no longer match reality. > (I have an SSD in my main workstation; it holds "/" and "/var", > both of which get minimal traffic.) I don't get the point of "fast drives". Applications load in memory. If you want a fast system, stick more RAM (and this is also a memo to myself). -- Ottavio Caruso