I have only occasional need to run problems larger than main memory (16 GB at present), so I can't justify replacing all the DRAM for an infrequent need. The drop in SSD prices has me contemplating adding a 128 GB SSD as a swap device. The SSD latency and IOPS specs look as if they might be a useful compromise.
Does anyone have any experience with this? The sort of jobs I'm interested in are batch processes that take several hours, not interactive tasks. At present rpool is a ZFS 3 way mirror. It's become a bit unclear to me if it is still possible to control the swap device independently of other parts of the system contained in rpool. Back in SunOS 4.x days I ran with a pair of swap partitions spread across two disks which got me twice the performance on large array operations. Reg _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
