Using USB flash as swap space.

[Derek Broughton]

Ray Parrish wrote:

> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:02 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>  
> Sadly no... I have searched my browser history, and can find no evidence
> that I read such an article, and am beginning to wonder if I
> hallucinated it. 8-) Maybe I read it on my friend's computer and then
> looked up information on the flash drives afterwards on mine, as I do
> find quite a few links to flash articles in my history for yesterday.

It certainly makes sense to me.  Flash drives have no latency.  However, you 
get a limited number (a large number, but still limited) of writes on a 
flash drive, and swap is written _a lot_.  It seems like a poor idea.
-- 
derek