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Quoting James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Terry Hill wrote:So would a good setup be to have an SSD drive to boot off and a ram drive as the swap area so the SSD is buffered from the reading and writing that goes on there?If you were going to have a RAM drive as swap, wouldn't it be better to just put more memory in the machine to start with and have no swap at all?
I was thinking the same, unless he means something like the Gigabyte PCI Express card which uses DDR2 memory. IIRC it appears as a physical drive but has the speed of memory (so it's used as a drive rather than system memory).
The only other case I've seen for using RAM as swap is on the PS3 where you can use the video ram of the graphics card as swap (since it can't be used for owt else in 'Other OS' mode).
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