questions about swap (partition and file)

[Ottavio Caruso]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 03:30, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:10:07 -0700, @lbutlr wrote:
> >Swap is written a lot and SSDs can fail faster if they are constantly
> >being written to.
>
> Hi,
>
> SSDs are made for read and write access. Treating SSDs with kid gloves
> is grotesque. Yes, using SSDs does wear out SSDs. However, using HDDs
> does wear out HDDs and using door locks, does wear out door locks.
>

IMHO, having SSDs and little RAM  is useless. One can have the best of
both worlds by putting the base system on a SSD and then mount some
directories on tmpfs. ("sudo find / -type d -name cache" is a good
start)


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Ottavio Caruso