<div dir="ltr"><div>Just to make it weird, DragonFly has a mechanism that lets you use your small fast drives as swap for your large slow drives. This mattered more when SSDs were still tiny.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=swapcache§ion=ANY">https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=swapcache§ion=ANY</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I'm using the term a bit loosely to make the analogy seem better, I know.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:06 AM George Rosamond <<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Do certain applications/OS functions still use swap as opposed to RAM <br>
for some reason? I mean, swap is normally encrypted by default, so there <br>
is a justifiable reason to use swap over RAM.<br><br>
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