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[ale] SWAP over NFS
- Subject: [ale] SWAP over NFS
- From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:24:45 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <20080416223403.QX8R1.106318.root@fepweb03> <[email protected]>
JK wrote:
> laytonjb at charter.net wrote:
>
> Isn't there a rather low physical limit on the total possible number of
> read/write cycles
> for a particular flash chip? It seems like swapping on flash would hit
> that limit pretty fast.
I think the limit runs from 100,000 to 1,000,000 depending on the card.
Since the cards do wear-leveling, one form of insurance should be to get
a larger card than you need. A 2GB 266x (40 MB/s) CompactFlash card
costs less than $30.
-Brian