questions about swap (partition and file)

[@lbutlr]

On 13 Feb 2020, at 07:34, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:03:26PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote:
>> 
>> It's usually not a good idea to have swap on a SSD.
> 
> Why is this? 
> For clarity, I mean a proper SSD not sdcard

Swap is written a lot and SSDs can fail faster if they are constantly being written to.

It’s not really that much of an issue with a modern SSD, but if you have a server that is really writing a lot to swap. Get more RAM and put swap on a rust drive.


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