Timo Schoeler wrote: >> But these days, nothing should ever be reading from swap, although you >> might write a bit there. If it does, buy some more RAM instead of >> worrying about disk performance. >> > > Sure, absolutely no question; *but* in the (ancient) times it was > important, it was 'nice' to have it as fast as possible, i.e. on the > fastest section(s) of the used HDs. So... > unless you're using tmpfs, where your swap space doubles as backing store for your /tmp I use this quite regularly on solaris, it performs much better than a conventional journaled file system, as recovery from system crashes is totally not a priority.