Wear leveling

Wear leveling

Posted Dec 14, 2006 9:31 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Swap on flash considered harmful? by xoddam
Parent article: Playing with the OLPC

It's called Wear leveling; read Sandisk's paper. Writing 4k every 5 seconds to flash would yield a lifetime of at least 73 years, probably 3 times as much.

But anyway I agree with you: I would disable swapping. Either it fits in memory or it doesn't -- no sense in wasting the limited disk space.

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