CF and Swap

[Bill Davidsen]

Joerg Bergmann wrote:
> Most of the CF with 8GB are more expense compared to the cheapest
> 8GB SSD device (IDE, 8GB, MLC, here in Germany 35 Euros). And CF
> are MLC, at least all the cheap ones! I personally would prefer
> SLC devices, they last substantially longer compared to MLC devices.
> I have a phenom II PC with a 64GB SLC disk, 32GB Win XP, 32GB
> fedora 11 partitions alltogether, no swap (4GB RAM, x86_32). At my 
> opinion, there is no need for swap on machines with several GB RAM.
> 
At the very least you want swap so you can suspend to disk. The swap need not be 
as large as all memory, cache and buffers will go to disk as part of the suspend 
  IIRC.

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