On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:52:53PM +0100, Roger Schreiter wrote:
> Ted Unangst schrieb:

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> > ...

> >> no swap partition!

> >

> > This is ridiculous advice.

> > ...

> >> a lot of things into files, put the respective dirs into

> >> ramdisks!

> >

> > Combined with this is even dumber.

>

>

> Hi,

>

> anyway, intensive swapping onto SDD HD will destroy your SDD HD.

Nonsense. modern ssd have firmware to avoid the wear out problem.

Yes, sometimes the firmware is buggy. That is a bigger problem than

the wearout. 
>

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> If RAM is the limiting resource in your system, you are right,

> my advice is ridiculous.

>

> In any else case, my advice is important, and for many, many

> applications it is possible to equip a system with enough RAM,

> making swapping uneccessary.

>

> Ramdisks and complete write protections of the HD is of course

> just an option to think about, and depends on the application,

> if appropriate or not.

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>

>

> Regards,

> Roger.