Using USB flash as swap space.

[Fred Roller]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 21:22 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I recently read an article that states that using a USB flash drive
> as 
> > swap space can help speed up a low memory system since the flash
> drive 
> > is faster than a hard drive.
> 
> Do you have a reference of said article?
> When and where was it published?
>  
> Thanks
>   Siggy

He's right.  Flash wears out from write operations and though it does
make for a decent swap just be prepared for it to wear out.  With heavy
use the studies have shown about an 8 month life span.  I will see if I
can dig up the articles for this information, it's been a while.

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