[GRLUG] swap benchmarking

Tim Schmidt timschmidt at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 09:12:33 EST 2007


On 2/19/07, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's hard to see that many people would
> benefit from a flash,  although servers
> might if one cached frequently used
> applications in flash that didn't fit in
> to swap space.  But it looks like solid
> state drive "solutions" are still pretty
> pricey for ordinary use.

Honestly, if your server is a source of income, it shouldn't ever
touch swap (well...  it shouldn't _need_ to).  For personal machines,
it's another matter altogether.

--tim


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